CCHR testifies before hearing of Maryland law seeking to end potentially lethal restraint methods used in youth transports to ...

Assemblymember Damon Connolly has introduced legislation intended to curtail barriers to emergency mental health treatment. Assembly Bill 384, or the Mental Health Protection Act, would prevent ...

A bill to include immunity for helping someone in a mental health crisis under the state’s Good Samaritan laws has passed in ...

The policy directives outlined in new executive orders by President Trump are already having significant effects on millions ...

Senate Bill 111 would provide mental health care for youths held by state juvenile justice, health and family services.

Caroline Ouko, the mother of Irvo Otieno is putting her support behind a piece of legislation that she says could have helped saved him from being sent to jail and his eventual death.

Maryland lawmakers are considering legislation that would charge fentanyl and heroin dealers with murder when the user suffers a fatal overdose.

Bravo to Palm Beach County commissioners, for pledging a substantial investment in mental health care. The board voted ...

A top judicial branch official said New Mexico's courts are willing to shoulder a larger role under a legislative plan to overhaul the state's mental health and substance abuse treatment system. But ...

A key part of California's Proposition 36 promised to direct people convicted of certain drug crimes to treatment. Counties ...

Too many people can't afford the high out-of-pocket costs for mental health care. A proposal in the Legislature aims to fix that by getting mental health care professionals reimbursed adequately, two ...