Editorial: Forcing treatment on mentally ill homeless people is a bad idea (via latimesopinion )
California’s landmark laws to protect the civil rights of psychiatric patients are being improperly scapegoated as the cause of rampant homelessness.— if by “works” we mean lasting improvement in their condition or the creation of the housing and supportive service they will need once the emergency hold or conservatorships expire.
And in fact, permitting the sick to live on the street without care is not an acceptable option. But current policies foolishly made the choice binary.
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