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“If you disagree with background checks, the logical jump is you believe it’s okay for criminals and the dangerously mentally ill to buy guns,” explains…

This past week, the Senate passed it's version of the Health Care Reform bill. It includes a measure that would require insurance companies to cover mental health costs in a manner comparable to coverage of physical health care. The measure attempts to remedy what activist groups claim is discrimination against people with mental health disabilities. Daniel speaks with Shelley Jackson who is a staff attorney at the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. She says there are widespread instances of discrimination against people with mental health disabilities, particularly in the workplace.

Carole Peccorini had to grow up quickly. When she was eight, her mother began to show symptoms of mental illness. As her disease progressed, her family…

For years, mental health advocates have been vocal about the criminalization of people with mental illnesses. Now activists and government leaders are pushing to create alternatives to law enforcement responding to mental health crises.

Josh Lampert was a 19-year-old away at college when his recreational drug use triggered a mental illness called psychotic depression. It involved intense…

A jury has found the gunman who killed five people at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, MD, in 2018, criminally responsible. His lawyers at argued that mental illness drove him to commit the shootings.

Host Mike Shuster talks to Bruce Link, co-author of a mental health study that is expected to be released today. According to a study, Americans increasingly associate mental illness with the potential for violence despite evidence the mentally ill are not violence-prone.

Getting mental health treatment to inmates who need it requires money and unprecedented collaboration between state and county departments of criminal justice and social services. Is it working?

Jail is too dangerous for many defendants found incompetent to stand trial because of illnesses like schizophrenia, judges say. But psychiatric hospitals are now overcrowded and violent, too.

In New York City, dozens of pyschiatrists are volunteering to find and help homeless people suffering from mental illness. Reporter Richard Schiffman reports that they they are seeking out these non-traditional patients in some very non-traditional ways.