LOS ANGELES—Less than one-third of calls to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) involving people experiencing a mental health crisis is being handled by a co-response team that includes a mental health clinician alongside a sworn officer, Police Chief Michel Moore told the Board of Police Commissioners Sept. 27. The LAPD instituted a program last…
LAPD: Mental Health Response Team Handling Just 32 Percent of Related Calls
September 29, 2022
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Gov. Newsom OKs CARE Act to Put Severely Mentally Ill People Into Treatment
September 15, 2022
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Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Act into law Sept. 14, creating California’s first court-mandated mental health and substance abuse treatment program for those with severe mental illness or drug addiction. “With folks that are struggling with [being on the] schizophrenia spectrum, with psychosis disorders, they need help, they need…
Highland Park Shooting Shows Why Gun Control is Insane
Commentary The Highland Park massacre near Chicago is the latest horrific chapter in a long and evil story. Some want you to believe it’s a story about why we need gun control. The truth is that it’s a story about letting the insane out of the asylums—and it suggests that gun control laws, including much-hyped…
‘No Leadership’: Camp Neighbours Decry Vancouver’s Worsening Homeless Situation
VANCOUVER—Residents living near a homeless camp in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside are speaking out as they question how much longer the camp will occupy the area. Meanwhile, advocates for the homeless point to the encampment as an example of political inaction in response to a problem that has needed attention for years, as some pundits question…
Woman Applies for Assisted Suicide, Saying Long COVID Has Rendered Her Unable to Work
A Toronto woman says she will apply for medically assisted death due to her long COVID symptoms, which she says have rendered her unable to work. Tracey Thompson, who contracted COVID-19 over two years ago, says the enduring symptoms and lack of financial support have led her to start the process of applying for Medical…
Newsom’s CARE Court Plan for Mentally-Ill Moves Forward With Bipartisan Support
June 30, 2022
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SACRAMENTO—Gov. Gavin Newsom’s radical plan to address the state’s worsening homelessness problem—by forcing some individuals with mental illnesses into medical treatment—made it through an Assembly committee this week, raking in bipartisan support. Authored by Senator Thomas Umberg (D-Santa Ana) and Senator Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton), the bill passed the Assembly Health Committee in a 14–0…
CDC Report Highlights Significant Link Between Substance Use and Psychiatric Disorders
June 11, 2022
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At least one-third of adults assessed for substance use at treatment centers in 2019 reported severe psychiatric problems, reveals the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) most recent Morbidity and Mortality weekly report, published on June 10. According to the report, in 2019, 65.8 million adults reported engaging in binge drinking and 35.8…
Prosecutor: Driver in Fatal Berlin Crash Seems Mentally Ill
BERLIN—A man accused of driving into a school group in Berlin, killing a teacher, and leaving others injured, appears to have a history of mental illness, prosecutors said Thursday, adding that there was no sign of a terrorist motive for what appeared to have been a deliberate act. A court ordered the man placed in…
Peter Stockland: It’s Urban Mental Illness That Needs Media Attention, Not a Few Cases of Monkeypox
Commentary Having grasped the COVID pandemic’s lucrative lessons in making money from fear, mainstream media is now pushing a tale of fright featuring a bug called monkeypox. Before the long weekend, one news network reported a staggering three cases of the mysterious malady in Quebec, bringing the national total to a knee-buckling five. Another tabloid-headlined…
Illinois Man Convicted of Giving Son Rifle He Used to Kill 4
PEKIN, Ill.—An Illinois man faces up to three years in prison after being convicted of illegally giving his son an assault-style rifle he later used to shoot and kill four people in 2018 at a Waffle House in Tennessee. A judge convicted Jeffrey Reinking last week of illegal delivery of a firearm to a person…
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