A bill aimed at protecting people with disabilities from abuse and neglect is now law. Senate Bill 670 creates a ...

There is considerable information about the relation between alcohol abuse and the onset of a disability due to accidents and injuries while under the influence. For example, alcohol consumption is a ...

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was designed to be a market-based system that would shift power from government and providers to consumers. The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission's ...

The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability is moving into its final phase and will report its findings in September. For the last four years the ...

College students with physical and cognitive disabilities use illicit drugs more, and have a higher prevalence of drug use disorder, than their non-disabled peers, according to a Rutgers study. The ...

The government discovered 33 suspected cases of abuse against people with disabilities after conducting a full inspection of 1,507 residential facilities for people with disabilities nationwide. To ...

New Jersey has new tools to hold accountable group homes for people with disabilities, including $25,000 fines for injuries ...

The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability has shared its final report. In this series, we unpack what the commission’s 222 recommendations could ...

Children with disabilities are at least three times more likely to experience abuse and neglect compared to their peers, and a new American Academy of Pediatrics report underscores the role of ...

RELEASED THE IDENTITY OF THAT PERSON. WELL, IN THE PAST THREE YEARS, MORE THAN 1700 CASES OF PHYSICAL ABUSE AND NEGLECT AND DISABLED ADULTS HAVE BEEN RECORDED BY THE AGING AND DISABILITY COMMISSION ...