Community support Hospitality Insurance 
Mad in America
JUNE 28, 2025
Soteria Israel operates two Soteria houses, based on the Soteria model, which offers a community-based, non-coercive alternative to traditional psychiatric hospitalization for individuals experiencing severe mental health crises, including psychosis. Medication use is typically less frequent than in traditional hospital settings.
Mad in America
JULY 26, 2025
Taken together, these decisions funnel public dollars away from community support and rights protection, and accelerate the drumbeat towards reinstitutionalization. The historic slashing of public benefits is predicted to have numerous ripple effects throughout the US healthcare and food systems.
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Clear Behavioral Health
APRIL 23, 2025
Limited insurance coverage: Even though you might benefit from a longer stay in rehab, most health insurance plans only offer coverage for a limited time. If rehab is no longer a medical necessity, your insurance provider will not pay for it. Contact our admissions team to learn about your coverage.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Was it related to medical insurance or government programs? One was the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , which presented the staff in a mental hospital as crazier than the patients and, frankly, brutal and oppressive. We are talking about hospitalized depression. Why should we pay for anything else?
Mad in America
JULY 17, 2024
My first job after college was on a community mental health treatment team, where we worked with people diagnosed with serious mental illness who had been long-term street homeless. Broadly, it was driven by well-documented abuse and neglect in asylums, spiraling hospital costs, and an overly optimistic faith in new medications.
Mad in America
AUGUST 3, 2024
Iatrogenesis is social when medicine as an institution and a bureaucracy creates ill-health by increasing stress; by subverting autonomy and community support; and by depoliticizing sources of illness. For Illich, the iatrogenesis of modern medicine is clinical when harm to individuals results specifically from medical treatment.
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