Assisted Outpatient Treatment: A Summary of the Evidence Guest Post by Nev Jones (@viscidula.bsky.social) No study has demonstrated that involuntary outpatient treatment adds value beyond the enhanced services and system accountability that accompany it. www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/assisted-o...

A careful, quietly devastating review of research on involuntary outpatient treatment. Coercion is being oversold as a way of addressing serious mental illness, and its harms (forcing patients to accept useless or harmful meds & therapies, disempowerment, social disruption, etc) are being downplayed

Here's my latest for @filtermag.bsky.social, tracking the City of San Francisco's twisted road to establish the controversial RESET Center, "a dressed up drunk tank" that will be located across the street from the jail.

“The RESET Center allows our officers to arrest those using drugs in public at a speed and volume we have never seen before,” stated Mayor Daniel Lurie. “We will also give those suffering from addiction a real chance to choose recovery.” By @leahidaharris.bsky.social:

Anti-ICE Organizing Is Creating Counter-Institutions Based on Care truthout.org/articles/ant...

My latest for @filtermag.bsky.social takes a look at HHS' "STREETS Initiative." The vision here is a faith-based, abstinence-only model, enforced if need be with court orders, running on an "outcome-based" payment scheme which would incentivize providers to "take charge" of people FOR YEARS.

Secretary Kennedy wants provider organizations to “take charge of an addict” for a period of one to three years.

why peer support. why harm reduction. why now? Peer support is a radical, community-led practice rooted in lived experience, mutual aid, and shared care. You can practice this today, in your friendships, in your workplaces, in your communities. with the strangers around you. today and forever.

In this episode of #Committable I speak with Leah Harris about the concept of Forcewashing and how it applies to the ongoing expansion of commitment laws throughout the United States. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...?

#committable just published our first post on Substack titled, “Trust me bro, I’m a Doctor.” open.substack.com/pub/committa...

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In this episode of #committable I speak with Fern, Director of the Wild Ivy Social Justice Network, about an outpatient commitment bill currently being considered by MA legislators. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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In this episode of #committable I speak with Steve Schwartz about an outpatient commitment bill currently being considered by legislators in MA. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

An upstate New York district, where most students are Native American, placed its superintendent on leave after images of a wooden box in a classroom spread on social media. endseclusion.info/3YIBF5q #EndSeclusion

In this episode of #committable I speak to Emily Harvey, Co-Legal Director of Disability Law Colorado, about a DLC report looking at the Southern Peaks Regional Treatment Center. @ndrnadvocates.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Leah Harris writes about the current involuntary outpatient commitment bill in MA. This article provides a comprehensive look at not only the myriad of truly concerning harms that could be caused if this bill becomes law, but also the mercurial PR maneuvers of an ideology rooted in coercion.

On November 18, Massachusetts advocates gathered at the State House as they have, year after year, to beat back yet another proposal for involuntary outpatient commitment. Massachusetts is now one of only two states that don’t use specialized courts to mandate forced psychiatric treatment.

The P&A network protects the rights of people with disabilities across the country. The Kentucky Protection and Advocacy Services Division is asserting its right to investigate alleged abuse of youth. Learn more: https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article312822075.html

"Trump's homeless 'warehouses' look like the next big swindle" Thank you @thecanaryuk.bsky.social for the most accurate headline about the ongoing Utah forced detention scheme that I have seen so far. www.thecanary.co/global/world...

In this episode I speak with Mark Joyce from Disability Rights Maine. We talk about the important relationship between DRM and their PAC as well as policy failures that allow for potentially indefinite detention in an ED. @ndrnadvocates.bsky.social #committable podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Due to the ongoing federal shutdown and lack of FY 2026 appropriations, DRA is facing severe funding challenges. We are pausing new case intake and implementing staff furloughs to preserve essential advocacy work. Our commitment to Arkansas’s disability community remains steadfast.

We’re proud to announce that we've successfully hired and trained additional hotline operators – increasing our hotline capacity and support by 75% during our call hours. Your donations have and will continue to sustain our ongoing work and support employment for trans people! Thank you.

HAPPENING NOW — Video obtained by The TRiiBE shows a federal agent with his hands around the neck of a Black man following an apparent car crash on the West Side near California Avenue and Congress Parkway. thetriibe.com/2025/10/vide...

Have You Been Restrained or Secluded? Our research survey is still open, and we need to hear your voice and experience. #EndSeclusion

In this episode of #committable I speak with Ruth Lowenkron from @nylpi.bsky.social. We talk about due process rights related to involuntary hospitalizations and the ongoing expansion of commitment laws in New York State. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

In this episode of #committable I speak with Nancy Murphy from Disability Law Center. DLC is the P&A for Massachusetts and we talk about the importance of P&A organizations, as well as the federal guardrails they have to navigate. @ndrnadvocates.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

When oversight fails, abuse follows. The Greer Center story is horrific & must be exposed. We stand with survivors & call for accountability. P&A organizations like the Oklahoma Disability Law Center, Inc are essential. CW: Abuse, neglect, torture, sexual assault www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...

The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails – or is unwilling – to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates today’s Right fully rejects the very idea of “living here with each other” as equals. That’s their defining position.

In this episode of #committable I speak with Gwen Orlowski from Disability Rights New Jersey about the work they do and the importance of Protection & Advocacy organizations. @ndrnadvocates.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

In this episode of #committable I spoke with Liz Logsdon and Robert Reyes Villagómez from Disability Rights California about a recently released report titled Let Me Go: Excessive Restraint of Patients at College Hospital. @ndrnadvocates.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

In this episode of #committable I speak with advocates and attorneys from Disability Rights Center New Hampshire. @ndrnadvocates.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

In this episode of #committable I spoke with Corye Dunn from @disabilityrightsnc.bsky.social about their recent report titled “Involuntary Commitment in NC: Overused, Misused, and Harmful”. @ndrnadvocates.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

In this episode of #committable I talk with Tim Clune and Jennifer Monthie from Disability Rights New York about the work they do, the legacy of the P&A system, and why it's important that this work continues. @ndrnadvocates.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Budget proposals have put Protection and Advocacy organizations at risk but P&As are a bulwark against horrific forms of abuse and neglect. To learn more about the P&A network, I spoke with attorneys from Disability Law Colorado. @ndrnadvocates.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Streamlining civil commitments will not prevent from gun violence. Processing how commonplace this sort of violence has become in our society is really challenging, but weaponizing stigma to punch down on vulnerable people will not make anyone safer. minnesotareformer.com/2025/09/15/s...

'Fox & Friends' co-host Brian Kilmeade suggested euthanizing unhoused people with mental health issues who decline help, saying, “Just kill ‘em.” More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

“I’m basically going to cancel with extreme prejudice these evil, sick animals who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination.” Elected officials seem to be targeting private citizens exercising their First Amendment rights to speak about Kirk’s exceedingly polarizing career.

A Fox News host suggested lethal injection for people who appear mentally ill or unhoused and refuse treatment. This is a show the President appears on. They want to normalize the idea of killing people whose existence is inconvenient and if there’s no pushback what do you think happens next?

Ezra Klein's take is just mind-boggingly bad. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It’s pretty disturbing how many people feel the need to shout about their fervor for forced treatment in response to Eric Adams’ most recent carceral dream. It further dehumanizes vulnerable people whose existence is constantly being “debated” for political capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...

Few OB-GYNs get disability training—and their disabled patients are far likelier to die.

Trump loves to use “sanist” language, words used to stigmatize mental health conditions in a derogatory way, to insult his enemies, and justify his actions. While these words can be part of casual vernacular, Trump’s constant use of dismissive and stigmatizing rhetoric matches his actions.

Trump's speeches on homelessness drip with fear and disgust. His policies are worse. Thousands of federal staffers working on mental health-related issues have been purged by Trump’s government.

“When you cut those services, you have a lot of downstream impacts, and that’s going to include upticks in emergency department visits, hospitalization needs, incarceration and in homelessness." Trump's speeches on homelessness drip with fear and disgust. His policies are worse.

One of the most frustrated and consistent conversations around mental health laws is when a person says “This law takes away my autonomy and makes me less safe” and the response by media and legislators pretty much always boils down to “Oh, but does your family think you deserve rights?”

This is a really insightful conversation that provides essential perspectives on the ongoing onslaught of legislative efforts designed to expand the use of involuntary psychiatric detentions on vulnerable people. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Today we published part 2 of our investigative story on Holly Hill. The for-profit psychiatric facility is expanding to serve more patients, including veterans, despite years of safety violations. www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2025/08/21/d...

These tropes may seem harmless, but they strip away humanity and reduce people to one-dimensional stories. We’re not here to fit a narrative. We’re here to live fully, with dignity and equality. #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #DisabilityRights #DRA