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

Mad in America

For example, in recent years P&As have exposed and opposed excessive use of restraints at New Yorks Bellevue hospital , over-representation of Black residents in psychiatric incarceration in Californias Alameda County , and abusive forced stripping in Washington facilities. Yet she had no idea what a P&A was.