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The Fight Against Involuntary Commitment: Are Protection and Advisory Councils Fulfilling Their Mission?

Mad in America

APRIL 26, 2025

S purred on by narratives that street problems are caused by mental health issues rather than by worsening economic inequities, new bills expanding powers to involuntarily commit people have been leapfrogging each other in recent years from California and New York to Oregon , Oklahoma , Indiana and beyond.

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Aging and mental health Legal Hospitality Nonprofits

Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I n the early 1960s, around the age of two, I experienced an accidental overdose. The incident occurred after one of my preschool-age siblings managed to use a kitchen chair to retrieve the tasty but very toxic medicine, open the bottle, and then give it to me believing the “candy medicine” would help their baby sister feel better.

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The Fight Against Involuntary Commitment: Are Protection and Advisory Councils Fulfilling Their Mission?

Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

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