Involuntary Commitment

Mental Health Kills the Mentally Ill

DJ Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

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DJ Jaffe

In 1955 there were 340 public psychiatric beds available per 100,000 U.S. citizens. By 2005, the number plummeted to a staggering 17 beds per 100,000 persons.

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What Harry Reid and John Boehner Should Do in Wake of Giffords Shooting

DJ Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mental Illness, House of Representatives, Congress, Mentally Ill, Assisted Outpatient Treatment, Schizophrenia, Involuntary Commitment, Aot, Obama, Gabrielle Giffords, Involuntary Treatment, Jared Loughner, Senate, Arizona Shooting, Politics News
DJ Jaffe

Federal mental-health dollars go to an astonishing variety of social programs for the worried-well, with little left for the seriously ill. Don't spend more. Spend smarter.

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Gabrielle Giffords, Jared Loughner and Mental Illness

DJ Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mental Illness, Shooting, Involuntary Commitment, Jared Laughner, Loughner, Arizona Shooting, Gabrielle Giffords, Jared Lee Loughner, Politics News
DJ Jaffe

Pundits in the aftermath of the Tuscan shooting are failing to address the reforms that could prevent these incidents in the first place. What's needed is reform of our involuntary commitment and treatment laws.

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What Should We Call People with Mental Illness?

DJ Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Psychiatry, Mental Health, Fuller Torrey, Antipsychotics, Manic Depression, Bipolar, Involuntary Treatment, Pam Hyde, Social Worker, Mental Illness, Antipsychiatry, Mindfreedom-International, Psychiatrist, Schizophrenia, Involuntary Commitment, National-Empowerment-Center, Substance Abuse, Medicine, Samhsa, Psychotic, Impact News
DJ Jaffe

Like ''diabetics,'' ''alcoholics,'' and epileptics,'' ''schizophrenics'' can usefully indicate a group of people with a common condition, and some individuals with schizophrenia refer to themselves this way.

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Largest & Longest Study: New Treatment Law Helps Mentally Ill Avoid Incarceration, Homelessness and Hospitalization

DJ Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mental Illness, Mentally Ill, Jails, Police, Incarceration, Schizophrenia, Involuntary Commitment, Criminal, Violence, Aot, Involuntary Treatment, Criminal Justice, Prisons, Crime Prevention, Assisted Outpatient Treatment, Hospitalization, Forensics, Domestic Violence, Ottawa County, Bono, Ohio, Murder, Liske, Home News
DJ Jaffe

The Halloween triple-murder in Bono, Ohio of William Liske, Jr., his wife Susan, and son Derrick has again focused the public's attention on what to d...

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Court rules gassing mentally ill is illegal. Is this the best we can do?

DJ Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

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DJ Jaffe

Psychiatric Times reported an appelate court decision: "Chemical Gassing of Mentally Ill Inmates is Unconsitutional": A Federal appeals court has su...

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Treat dangerous schizophrenia, the same way we treat TB.

DJ Jaffe | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Lauras Law, Carla Jacobs, Mentally Ill, Health Policy, Bipolar, Tuberculosis, New York, New York City, California, Mental Illness, Treatment Advocacy Center, DJ Jaffe, Kendra's Law, Health Care Reform, San Francisco, Kendras Law, Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, Assisted Treatment, Outpatient Assisted Treatment, Involuntary Treatment, Involuntary Commitment, Aot, Schizophrenia, Healthy Living News
DJ Jaffe

According to Amenoma Hartocollis of the New York Times, New York City tightened their rules for monitoring discharged patients with tuberculosis becau...

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NYS Senate voted today to not help mentally ill, not keep public safer and not save money

DJ Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mental Illness, Psychiatry, New York State, Mental Health, New York State Senate, New York, Schizophrenia, Laura's Law, Depression, Crime, Bipolar, Involuntary Treatment, Kendra Webdale, Kevin's Law, Involuntary Commitment, Kendra's Law, Forensics, Hospitals, Prisons, NYS Budget, New York News
DJ Jaffe

As part of the budget non-process, the NYS Senate today voted not to make Kendra's Law permanent and not to improve it. That means they voted not to h...

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Mental Health Parity: Obama Style

DJ Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Treatment Advocacy Center, Mentally Ill, Mental Health Parity, Mental Health, Obamacare, DJ Jaffe, Kendra's Law, President Obama, Schizophrenia, Health Care Reform, Institutes for Mental Disease, Health Insurance, IMD Exclusion, Involuntary Commitment, Involuntary Treatment, Stigma, Psychiatric Hospitals, treatmentadvocacycenter.org, State Psychiatric Hospitals, State Hospitals, Discrimination, Medicaid, Politics News
DJ Jaffe

I'm happy the Obama Administration is telling group insurers to stop discrimination against the mentally ill. Now I wish they were listening to what they are saying.

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