LOS ANGELES -- The use of chemical restraint was more common among Black patients versus white and Hispanic patients in psychiatric emergency settings, a single-center study suggested. Among 852 ...

In the chaotic environment of an emergency room, hospital staffers sometimes face the question of whether to use physical restraints when a patient is experiencing a behavioral crisis. Using ...

Black patients presenting with psychiatric disorders to hospital emergency departments (EDs) across the US have significantly higher rates of chemical restraint than their White counterparts, new ...

We’ve probably all seen TV shows or movies such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (starring Jack Nicholson), where an individual with a mental illness is placed in a straitjacket in a psychiatric ...

CCHR says legislative protections are needed prohibiting chemical and physical restraint and punitive seclusion rooms, not only in the U.S. but globally. Mental health industry watchdog says ...

Litigators from the Mental Hygiene Legal Service, a branch of the New York State Supreme Court, and officials of the New York Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs are ...

In a multicenter emergency department (ED) cohort of patients on chronic psychiatric medications, restarting outpatient medications within 24 hours was not associated with the overall length of stay ...