A psychiatric case has prompted a firm rebuke from Europe’s human rights court, drawing attention to how long coercive ...

Where did the data come from? To report this story, The Times analyzed data collected by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the federal agency that has gathered restraint information from ...

This week, Mad in America explores three studies related to the use of coercive psychiatric measures. The first finds that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Jim Cooke / Los Angeles Times) A Times analysis of federal data found that Los Angeles General Medical Center physically ...

Los Angeles General Medical Center restrains inpatients in its psychiatric unit at a rate higher than any other hospital in California — and more than 50 times the national average for inpatient ...

Two Los Angeles County supervisors are calling on health officials to find alternatives to physically restraining patients, voicing concerns after a Times investigation found an L.A. County-run ...

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 ...

Thomas, 44, died after what a county autopsy report describes as an "altercation with staff" at the Tucson-area Sonora ...

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 ...

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 ...