Reduction in the use of physical restraints was seen after implementation of an evidence-based intervention program. Between December 2024 and January 2025 no physical restraint episodes occurred in ...

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 ...

A Seattle Times investigation found medical staff in dozens of states have used spit hoods alongside restraints and sedatives on mental health patients,a practice linked to distress, suffocation and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Irvo Otieno, seen here in an undated photo, died March 6, 2023 at Central State Hospital in Dinwiddie County. after experiencing a mental health crisis. (Courtesy of Ben Crump Law) A newly released ...

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 ...

At the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting, a patient described a restraint that haunts him, more than eight years later. By Ellen Barry The annual gathering of the American Psychiatric ...