STAFF working at a mental health hospital embroiled in an abuse scandal have once again been caught assaulting patients. Two ...
When one of Canada's leading public health journalist, Andre Picard wanted to talk to me for an article in the Globe and Mail about my personal experience with restraints, I was honoured. Honoured and ...
Bridgewater is the nation’s only forensic psychiatric facility run by a corrections department, rather than a state mental ...
A critical inspection report into the mental health hospital comes as the NHS withdraws patients.
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 ...
A federal inspection determined patients’ rights were violated at the South Dakota Human Services Center in Yankton — a state-run mental health hospital — when workers misused restraints to control ...
Patients, relatives and whistleblowers have described a culture of abuse at a mental health hospital, while 15 staff members ...
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 ...
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