Restraints are still routinely used during psychiatric care, and disproportionately on Black patients. A psychiatrist traces ...
Non-Hispanic Black youth between the ages of 5 and 18 years old are more likely to undergo pharmacologic restraint during mental health crises than children of other races and ethnicities. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
Julieta* grew weaker as her illness progressed. She was a frail, 4'11", elderly woman battling terminal cancer who began punching the air, trying to assert control over an unfamiliar reality. As her ...
Florida health regulators have launched an investigation into a 30-bed mental health facility in Tampa and ordered the center to stop taking new patients after a person died while in its care, ...
A North East health boss says his staff "have made huge inroads" into ending the use of restraints such as handcuffs in ...
A 5-year ED study finds that Black individuals and individuals arriving via EMS or law enforcement have significantly higher odds of receiving intramuscular chemical sedation.
Judgment exposes Denmark’s continued use of dangerous psychiatric restraint, affecting thousands of patients each year.
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