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Human Rights Watch has carefully reviewed AB 2830 and the proposed framework for the Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment (CARE) Court created by CalHHS, and must respectfully voice our strong opposition. CARE Court promotes a system of involuntary, coerced treatment, enforced by an expanded judicial infrastructure, that will, in practice, simply remove unhoused people with perceived mental health conditions from the public eye without effectively addressing those mental health conditi...

Parental socioeconomic status affects youth prognosis April 1, 2022, PITTSBURGH, PA—Parents’ socioeconomic status and whether they have a substance abuse

Researchers in France describe the poor clinical results they have observed so far using eskatamine for treatment-resistant depression.

Housing First programs may offer increased chances of recovery for people at the intersection of homelessness and mental illness.

Proponents of ECT have resorted to ad hominem attacks and rude language in addition to reiterating the same tired points over and over.

Public approval of psychiatric coercion increases with perceived dangerousness and decreases with increased familiarity with mental distress.

Investegate announcements from COMPASS Pathways, COMPASS Pathways announces further positive results from groundbreaking phase IIb trial of investigational COMP360 psilocybin therapy for treatment-resistant depression

- Positive topline results validated by additional analyses - Patient improvements beyond reduction of depression symptoms - Further insights into timing and circumstance of adverse events demonstrate

Acknowledging the role of trauma inflicted by an individual's mother is not the same as laying blame for “mental illness” at the feet of motherhood.

Mainstream psychiatry continues to claim that antidepressants effectively reduce suicide risk, despite compelling evidence to the contrary.