Mental Illness Policy Org

Unbiased information on serious mental illness (not "mental health") for media and policymakers. Includes info on violence and mental illness, involuntary treatment, involuntary commitment, assisted outpatient treatment, AOT, Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity, NGRI

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

You can stop Waste, Fraud, Mission Creep in California Mental Health Services Act

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As a result of mission creep, insider dealing, and lack of oversight, tens of millions of dollars of MHSA funds are being diverted to progra...
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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Libertarians should support involuntary commitment reform.

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This is a digest of a more extensive version I wrote on civil commitment for Cato Institute , a libertarian think-tank. Rael Jean Isaac also...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

A Libertarian Plan to Improve Involuntary Commitment Procedures

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At the Cato Institute, America's preeminent libertarian think-tank, I wrote  Current civil commitment policies protect neither the lib...

How NYS Can Comply with Olmstead & Improve Mental Illness Care

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NYS is currently holding hearings and accepting write in testimony on how to comply with the Supreme Court decision, Olmstead v. L....
Friday, August 10, 2012

Federal Bill to Speed SSI, SSDI, & Medicaid to Mentally Ill Parolees Introduced

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  H. R. 6256 was just introduced by  Rep. André Carson [D-IN]   t o ensure prompt access to SSI, SSDI, and Medicaid for prisoners released ...
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