Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Involuntary treatment for homeless people aims to help – but also raises ethical debates. Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images Over the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Susan E. Collins, University of Washington (THE CONVERSATION) Since President Donald ...

Rumors spread amid a legitimate debate in Canada about potential civil liberty violations through involuntary psychiatric ...

The housing crisis is pushing more and more people onto the streets. More than one in 10 Canadians report experiencing some form of homelessness in their lifetime. It is currently possible to forcibly ...

California's treatment threshold for imposing non-volitional psychiatric care on a person suffering from a mental illness states that he or she must be either "a danger to others, or to himself or ...

Intervention without human rights goes by many names — involuntary institutionalization, compulsory drug treatment, “coerced care,” forced abstinence or a combination of all of those terms. The ...

“Senate Bill 962 … outlines treatment that is aimed towards helping individuals regain control of their lives,” Sen. Dan Laughlin, R-Erie, said during a press conference Wednesday. “Substance use ...

Among Canadian politicians, there is a rising interest in the involuntary treatment of homeless patients with episodes of mental illness and substance abuse. Experts, however, say that the evidence to ...

Since President Donald Trump issued a July 2025 executive order aimed at “ending crime and disorder on America’s streets,” national attention has increasingly focused on involuntary treatment as a ...