News flash: There is no such thing as 'truth serum' The next time the court appoints you to conduct a sanity evaluation, don'...

Under what circumstances may the U.S. government drug a captive against his will? A round of high-profile court skirmishes over the forcibl...

In addition to the high-profile competency hearing in Iowa that I blogged about yesterday, this week featured lots of other legal happenings...

My regular readers know all about the DSM-V revision controversies (click HERE for more), and the efforts of some psychiatrists to make t...

Would you believe: Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Wyeth, Merck, AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb? Or, at least, those are some of the BigPharma corp...

One of two defendants in the highly publicized Elizabeth Smart kidnapping case in Utah can be forcibly medicated in an attempt to make her c...

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday upheld lifetime supervision of a child pornographer after he finishes serving his prison term. ...

" The Little Engine that Could" If you're deciding what to read next, I strongly recommend Elyn R. Saks' The Center Cannot...

Wouldn't it be great if, instead of supporting more prisons, California's governor signed legislation authorizing mental health trea...

When criminal defendants are found incompetent to stand trial, they go to state hospitals for competency restoration treatment. But hospital...