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by devilbunny 1066 days ago
There is no shortage of writing on this. The Supreme Court decisions of the early 1970s on mental health were well-intentioned but disastrous.
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> The Supreme Court decisions of the early 1970s on mental health were well intentioned but disastrous.

Those decisions still left much room for coerced treatment, so it's not clear how disastrous they were. Most if not all states and cities ended up with additional legislation, caselaw, and normative policies that made coerced treatment (including outpatient treatment) much more difficult.

I am very curious to hear the personal experiences of a frontline firefighter/EMT in Phoenix