Calif law to force mentally ill to get treatment

[Cypress]

Oh course it is. Once released they would need to continue their treatment regimen to remain stable. It's staying stable that's the problem not getting stable.

Once stabilized, I read about one third if schizophrenia patients continue their medication.

That ratio can be improved.

These days there is a treatment for schizophrenia in the form of a shot that only has to be taken once a month. That needs to be made widely available. That should make ongoing treatment more feasible.

 

[Yakuda]

Once stabilized, I read about one third if schizophrenia patients continue their medication.

That ratio can be improved.

These days there is a treatment for schizophrenia in the form of a shot that only has to be taken once a month. That needs to be made widely available. That should make ongoing treatment more feasible.

Yes Latuda has had great success but it still requires people getting the shot.

 

[Lionfish]

California Law to Force the Mentally Ill to Get Treatment


SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — More Californians with untreated mental illness and addiction issues could be detained against their will and forced into treatment under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, a move to help overhaul the state’s mental health system and address its growing homelessness crisis.

The new law, which reforms the state’s conservatorship system, expands the definition of “gravely disabled” to include people who are unable to provide themselves basic needs such as food and shelter due to an untreated mental illness or unhealthy drugs and alcohol use. Local governments say current state laws leave their hands tied if a person refuses to receive help.

The law is designed to make it easier for authorities to provide care to people with untreated mental illness or addictions to alcohol and drugs, many of whom are homeless.

CA can start with their politicians.

 

[Nordberg]

If you want to stop the cartels, you have to deal with those who buy drugs. We have taken down many dealers and cartels and another pops up. If there is money to be made, someone will provide. That is why dealing with users is the correct approach. Treat them and if enough get off drugs, the dealers will stop. Deals are pushers who will give starter drugs to hook new customers. If you are not using, they will have to stop. We need quick and easily available drug treatment.

 

[Cypress]

Yes Latuda has had great success but it still requires people getting the shot.

Picking people up who are creating nuisance conditions and getting them stabilized is better then letting them wander the streets, take shits in front of busnesses, and pose threats to themselves or the welfare of the community.

Business owners and the community have rights too.

They can be picked up again if they are acting in ways that warrant it.

That shot is effective for thirty days or more

Having them stabilized 50 percent of the time is better than the alternative: letting them wander around unstable 100 percent of the time.

 

[Yakuda]

Picking people up who are creating nuisance conditions and getting them stabilized is better then letting them wander the streets, take shits in front of busnesses, and pose threats to themselves or the welfare of the community.

Business owners and the community have rights too.

They can be picked up again if they are acting in ways that warrant it.

That shot is effective for thirty days or more

Having them stabilized 50 percent of the time is better than the alternative: letting them wander around unstable 100 percent of the time.

I'm not arguing with you I'm am more concerned about the suspension of people's rights. It can be easy and attractive to suspend people rights for all kinds of reasons that seem justifiable. We should proceed with extreme caution.

 

[Hawkeye10]

The last 60 years of mental health reforms have been a disaster, and the ship can not be righted when all of the health systems are deeply corrupted by Big Pharma and the society is in collapse.

 

[Into the Night]

California Law to Force the Mentally Ill to Get Treatment


SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — More Californians with untreated mental illness and addiction issues could be detained against their will and forced into treatment under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, a move to help overhaul the state’s mental health system and address its growing homelessness crisis.

The new law, which reforms the state’s conservatorship system, expands the definition of “gravely disabled” to include people who are unable to provide themselves basic needs such as food and shelter due to an untreated mental illness or unhealthy drugs and alcohol use. Local governments say current state laws leave their hands tied if a person refuses to receive help.

The law is designed to make it easier for authorities to provide care to people with untreated mental illness or addictions to alcohol and drugs, many of whom are homeless.

And who's going to pay for it? The SDTC is already broke.

 

[Into the Night]

People in the thrall of schizophrenia don't think there's anything wrong with them and they are walking around undiagnosed


MAGA can't wail about the homeless in San Francisco, and then spin around and wail when the state government takes steps to address it

It doesn't address it.

 

[Jade Dragon]

California Law to Force the Mentally Ill to Get Treatment


SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — More Californians with untreated mental illness and addiction issues could be detained against their will and forced into treatment under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, a move to help overhaul the state’s mental health system and address its growing homelessness crisis.

The new law, which reforms the state’s conservatorship system, expands the definition of “gravely disabled” to include people who are unable to provide themselves basic needs such as food and shelter due to an untreated mental illness or unhealthy drugs and alcohol use. Local governments say current state laws leave their hands tied if a person refuses to receive help.

The law is designed to make it easier for authorities to provide care to people with untreated mental illness or addictions to alcohol and drugs, many of whom are homeless.

Sounds good to me as long as the treatment they are enforcing is paid for.