On average, “40 or more acutely mentally ill inmates” are booked in L.A. County every day. The new Jail Inpatient Unit at the ...

Senate Bill 43 would strip mentally ill people of their power of self-determination by compelling them into short stints of ...

Bexar County is set to acquire its leased residential mental health treatment center, part of its plan to expand the facility ...

Explore how San Francisco needs extra funding from the State of California to implement its proposed Community Assistance, ...

A bill that promises to make major changes to California’s behavioral health system is moving quickly through the State ...

Health worker wages, homeless kids, the debt bill, transgender health, urgent care, weight-loss drugs, and more are in the ...

If severe mental illness, untreated, underlies the feeling of encroaching anarchy and menace around the homeless encampments ...

A Family HealthCare Network medical facility will be constructed in Springville after the Tulare County Board of Supervisors approved issuance of funding for the project during their regular meeting o ...

Drug use has become a major public health crisis, but effective treatment remains hard to find. It does exist though.

The shortage can be traced in large part to a landmark law signed in 2015, according to child welfare advocates, some of whom ...

Policymakers and activists are questioning if jails and prisons are equipped to adequately care for those with mental illness ...

Colorado is tackling a surge in eating disorders with its acting governor signing two bills to address the mental illness ...