Involuntary treatment of homeless people by police, untrained in psychiatry, is a massive restriction of rights and completely unethical.| Invisible People
There appears to be a growing consensus between the two dominant poles of politics in British Columbia. The Conservatives and the BC NDP have together embraced a series of regressive policies as the provincial election devolves into a surreal fantasy land where up is down, left is right, but somehow right is still right.| themainlander.com
Currently working on a flow diagram to illustrate how involuntary treatment occurs, who is involved, and the oversight for this process. This is the step-by-step process that occurs when a patient is taken to a community hospital. Not all community hospitals accept patients on psychiatric holds because they have no appropriate treatment environments and the treatment is very costly and poorly reimbursed. These details are typically left out in discussions of involuntary treatment. It ha...| Real Psychiatry Technical Blog