mental health

Mental health care ranks among the most expensive kinds of health care in American medicine—and having a mental illness or behavioral disorder can drive...

Governor Rick Scott highlighted a mental-health reform bill at a ceremonial signing in Miami on Tuesday. Lawmakers passed Senate Bill 12 earlier this…

Florida will spend $58 million more next year on mental health care, with $16 million addressing staffing and safety deficits in the state’s mental…

This week is Perinatal Mental Health Awareness Week. Officials want to make people more aware of one of the top health complications surrounding...

A former psychiatric technician at a Sarasota mental health hospital has been convicted on six counts of lewd or lascivious battery and one count of lewd…

Leon County Commissioner Bill Proctor is pushing for an assessment of available resources in Leon County to address mental health and substance abuse....

The federal government says non-Medicaid expansion states could be doing more to help people with substance abuse and mental health disorders....

Gov. Rick Scott on Friday signed a bill that supporters said will help the court system address issues with criminal defendants who have mental…

In the waning hours of the 2016 legislative session, Florida lawmakers Friday approved wide-ranging reforms to the state's mental-health and…

Since the 1970s, the hard on crime ethos has fueled the era of mass incarceration. Simultaneously, the country defunded public mental health services. A...