After a week off following Memorial Day, lawmakers were back in town this week.

North Carolina’s involuntary commitment system is part of a mental health reform package chamber leaders say will enhance ...

A bill that's part of the state legislature's efforts to ramp up the number of criminal suspects involuntarily committed to ...

The video above is from when the North Carolina General Assembly was beginning the process of the legislation. RALEIGH, N.C. ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Years ago, therapist Ashley Gilmore was in a counseling session when she was attacked by one of her clients. "They came into the session totally fine," Gilmore said, "And then ...

A state committee on Tuesday gave a favorable report to a bill that would change where mental evaluations are conducted for ...

Last month, the Montana Supreme Court affirmed the district court’s involuntary commitment of a married, successful business owner in her late fifties (“Maggie”) to the Montana State Hospital because ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - There are three state-operated mental health facilities in Alabama equipped to provide inpatient services for adults with serious mental health conditions. While that may ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul is reiterating her efforts to make it easier to involuntarily commit and treat people with severe mental illness in the wake of a spate of violence in the subway. In a statement ...

Down-and-out New Yorkers suffering psychiatric issues so severe they can’t care for themselves can be whisked into treatment easier under a long-awaited deal to tackle the Big Apple’s mental health ...