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MENTAL ILLNESS POLICY ORG.

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NYS and Kendra's Law Subsite. CA and Laura's Law Subsite. CA MHSA/Prop 63 Subsite. 5000 suicides a year are likely caused by schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Robins E. Psychosis and suicide. Biological Psychiatry 1986;21:665–672. 10-13% of individuals with schizophrenia and 15% of individuals with bipolar disorder kill themselves. Bull; A 1992 survey of individuals with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder reported that 19 percent had threatened or attempted suicide within the previous year. Stephens J,...

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Laura's Law & Other Serious Mental Illness Issues in California Home Page

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NYS and Kendra's Law Subsite. CA and Laura's Law Subsite. CA MHSA/Prop 63 Subsite. Laura's Law and Other Serious Mental Illness Legislation in California. Mental Health Services Act Problems Home Page Moved Here. March 2015: SUMMARY OF 2 IMPORTANT LAURA'S LAW BILLS. THAT PASSED MENTAL HEATLH COMMITTEE 4/15/2015 (Text: AB 59 Waldron. Research in California shows Laura's Law works. For example, Nevada County implemented Laura's Law and found:. Hospitalization was reduced 46%;. Incarceration reduced 65%;.

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Annual Per Capita Cost of Homeless Mentally Ill - MENTAL ILLNESS POLICY ORG.

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NYS and Kendra's Law Subsite. CA and Laura's Law Subsite. CA MHSA/Prop 63 Subsite. Leaving Mentally ll People to Live on the Streets Costs $22,372 Per Person Per Year. A recently published study reported that the average cost for public services for such mentally ill homeless individuals is $22,372 per person per year, and that amount includes only some of their costs. Making sure that such people receive proper psychiatric treatment would not only be humane, it would also be cost effective.

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Up to 50% of mentally ill go untreated

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NYS and Kendra's Law Subsite. CA and Laura's Law Subsite. CA MHSA/Prop 63 Subsite. About 50% of individuals with severe psychiatric disorders (3.5 million people) are receiving no treatment. Mark Olfson et al. at Columbia reanalyzed 2003 national Medicaid claims for 49,239 individuals with schizophrenia who were hospitalized. They found that 41 percent of the patients received no psychiatric follow-up treatment in the month following their discharge from the hospital. The strongest predictors...Olfson M,...

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Consequences of not treating mentally ill

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NYS and Kendra's Law Subsite. CA and Laura's Law Subsite. CA MHSA/Prop 63 Subsite. HOMELESSNESS, INCARCERATION, EPISODES OF VIOLENCE:. WAY OF LIFE FOR ALMOST HALF OF AMERICANS WITH UNTREATED SCHIZOOPHREMIA AND BIPOLAR. This article unindexed as it now appears here. Millions of Americans with Serious Brain Disorders Go Untreated. An estimated 4.5 million Americans today suffer from t wo of. Adding to this crisis are the illnesses themselves. Schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness greatly impair se...

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MENTAL ILLNESS POLICY ORG.

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NYS and Kendra's Law Subsite. CA and Laura's Law Subsite. CA MHSA/Prop 63 Subsite. Five-Point Action Plan for President Obama to Reduce Violence by the Mentally Ill. Originally published in National Review 12/17/12. President Obama said the federal government has to do something meaningful to prevent future shootings, like the recent massacre of 26 children and adults at a school in Newtown, Connecticut. Here is what the federal government can do to prevent violence related to mental illness:. C) lacks c...

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Homicides by mentally ill

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NYS and Kendra's Law Subsite. CA and Laura's Law Subsite. CA MHSA/Prop 63 Subsite. 1000 Homicides by mentally ill. Several different studies and calculation methods (presented below) suggest that 1,000 homicides or more a year are committed by people with untreated severe mental illness.A 2011 study suggests that state homicide rates are correlated to the state's civil commitment laws. Ie, states that make it easier to treat people with mental illness have lower homicide rates. H Harwood, A. Ameen, G...

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Civil Liberties and Mental Illness: Best Article Ever Written

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NYS and Kendra's Law Subsite. CA and Laura's Law Subsite. CA MHSA/Prop 63 Subsite. Far from respecting civil liberties, legal obstacles to treating the mentally ill limit or destroy the liberty of the person. Herschel Hardin is an author and consultant. He was a member of the board of directors of the Civil Liberties Association from 1965 to 1974, and has been involved in the defense of liberty and free speech through his work with Amnesty International. One of his children has schizophrenia. Civil Liber...

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Criminalization of mentally ill and mental illness

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NYS and Kendra's Law Subsite. CA and Laura's Law Subsite. CA MHSA/Prop 63 Subsite. Criminalization of individuals with severe psychiatric disorders. Jails and prisons: The nation’s largest psychiatric facilities. Approximately 10 percent of prisoners have severe psychiatric disorders. Approximately 218,000 individuals with severe psychiatric disorders are incarcerated in the nation’s jails and prisons at any given time. This number is equivalent to the population of such cities as Akron, Ohio; Madison, W...

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Lack of treatment dangerous to mentally ill. 2 articles on consequences

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NYS and Kendra's Law Subsite. CA and Laura's Law Subsite. CA MHSA/Prop 63 Subsite. The consequences of non-treatment for serious mental illness are devastating. Here are 2 articles on it. There are approximately 1,000 homicides – among the estimated 20,000 total homicides in the U.S. – committed each year by people with untreated schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness. According to a 1994 Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report, Murder in Families, 4&#...Of spouses killed b...