Evelyn Graham-Nyaasi knows what it’s like to be involuntarily committed for mental health treatment. The Manhattan resident, who has bipolar disorder, recalled that in 2018, someone in her home ...

A Nikiski man accused of murdering his mother in 2022 can be involuntarily medicated so that he can stand trial, the Alaska Court of Appeals ruled Friday. Alaska State Troopers arrested then ...

COMMISSIONER SAYS THE SHOOTING APPEARS TO BE GANG- RELATED. MORE LEGAL TROUBLE FOR A FORMER ROGERS DOCTOR, ALREADY FACING CHARGES OF MEDICAID FRAUD. NEWLY-FILED COURT DOCUMENTS SHOW DR. BRIAN HYATT ...

In July 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order vowing to end "crime and disorder on America's streets" caused, the administration asserted, by the record number of homeless people, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What is a 5150 hold? The involuntary mental health hospitalization explained. (Illustration by Aisha Yousaf) The term "5150 hold" ...

In March or 2007, after subsisting for five years with untreated schizophrenia, which manifested as severe psychosis, delusions, homelessness, and incarceration, I was taken to a psychiatric hospital ...

NY is poised to involuntarily commit people "due to an inability or refusal, as a result of their mental illness, to provide for their own essential needs" such as food, clothing or shelter. The ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced a plan on Tuesday to involuntarily remove homeless people with mental illnesses from the streets and subways and force them to receive a psychiatric evaluation ...

Days after filing a whistleblower complaint claiming that the Department of Government Efficiency put Americans’ Social Security data at risk, the agency’s chief data officer “involuntarily” resigned.

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