Involuntary Treatment of Mental Illness: Here We Go Again
AFFIRMING PSYCHIATRY On Tuesday, November 29th, just a several days immediately after Thanksgiving, Mayor Eric Adams announced that the Town of New York would move up efforts to involuntarily hospitalize homeless individuals with serious mental illness, even if they did not depict a danger of violence. The announcement provoked wary, anxious responses from all sides, at the very least according to The New York Situations. A person government official called the exertion “deeply problematic,” when other people predicted authorized problems…