Senate Bill 44 is working its way through committees in the Alaska Legislature. I strongly suggest that the senators who are sponsoring the bill talk with adolescents in locked psychiatric facilities ...

Next year will be the twentieth anniversary of “Myers v. Alaska Psychiatric Institute,” a successful lawsuit against the state. Michael Perlin, who has been described as the Dean of Mental Health Law, ...

Medical professionals and family members pleaded with UC San Diego Health Tuesday to scrap plans to close its 14-bed behavioral health unit for seniors at UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest. But though ...

A patient in a cluster of suicides at a Queensland hospital mental health unit carried razor blades into the ward without detection, locked herself in a bathroom and died as staff scrambled to find ...

In psychiatric clinics with an exclusively open-door policy, the risk of patients committing suicide or absconding from treatment is no higher than in clinics with locked wards. This has been ...

Luke Bergmann, the man whose vision of a more holistic mental health care system bridged political ideology on the county Board of Supervisors, has tendered his resignation, though he will remain on ...