Also this week: Asian Americans with ADHD go underdiagnosed, and report details failings in health care for women, people of color.
Despite efforts to reduce incarceration, LA County's incarcerated inmates with mental illness increased by 54% from 2015-2022, highlighting inadequate care and funding issues.
This week, we’re launching a new column anchored by veteran journalist James Causey of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that explores health inequities in the broadest sense.
Patient advocates hope new powers for health insurance regulators will usher in change, but the parity standard has its limits and is difficult to enforce.
Minnesota hospital payment data has shown that mental health services receive significantly lower median payments than other categories of care.
The rollout of 988 and related psychiatric emergency services has failed to live up to its promise, an LA Times investigation finds.
America’s largest county has launched numerous initiatives to shrink its jail population and divert people with mental illness from jail entirely.
Los Angeles County is imprisoning more people with mental illness than it did a decade ago—but is failing to provide them with basic treatment.
I’ve spent my career writing about youth. But Jack and his family graciously let me into their lives in a way that few have before.
While children show different responses to early trauma, experts say that research shows that witnessing a parent's arrest or deportation leads to a complex series of problems.