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Showing posts with label Mental Health System. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mental Health System. Show all posts
Friday, March 30, 2018

Trump Wants More Asylums — and Some Psychiatrists Agree

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Benedict Carey The New York Times Originally published March 5, 2018 Here is an excerpt: The third, and perhaps most critical, point o...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

Hard Time or Hospital Treatment? Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System

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Christine Montross The New England Journal of Medicine 2016; 375 :1407-1409 Here is an excerpt: When law enforcement is involved, the ...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

State mental hospitals were closed to give people with mental illness greater freedom

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but it increased the risk they’d get no care at all. By The Spotlight Team The Boston Globe Originally posted August 28, 2016 Here is ...
Friday, April 1, 2016

Assisted Outpatient Treatment: APA’s Position Statement

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Renée Binder Psychiatric News Originally posted February 29, 2016 Here is an excerpt: Is AOT ethical? Some opponents of AOT feel that...
Saturday, March 19, 2016

How America's criminal justice system became the country's mental health system

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By German Lopez Vox.com Originally published March 1, 2016 Here are two excerpts: It's a terrifying statistic: Someone with an unt...
Friday, January 15, 2016

Outsourcing the Mentally Ill to Police

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By Rich Lowry The National Review Originally posted January 1, 2016 Here is an excerpt: In its analysis of 2015 police shootings, the ...
Monday, May 25, 2015

A shocking number of mentally ill Americans end up in prison instead of treatment

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By Ana Swanson The Washington Post Originally published April 30, 2015 Here is an excerpt: For various reasons, these community treatm...
Friday, April 25, 2014

U.S. Prisons Becoming De Facto Home of the Mentally Ill

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A new study reveals that prisons in America house ten times as many mentally ill as the state-run psychiatric wards that could actually trea...
Friday, March 22, 2013

New Hampshire's mental health system: From leader to failure

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By Annmarie Timmins The Concord Monitor Originally published March 10, 2013 During his 1971 inaugural address, then-Gov. Walter Peterson...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Hickenlooper's Gun Control

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The Colorado Governor's plan to fix mental health, not firearms alone. Review and Outlook - The Wall Street Journal Originally publish...

Warning Signs of Violent Acts Often Unclear

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By BENEDICT CAREY and ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS The New York Times Published: January 15, 2013 No one but a deeply disturbed individual marche...