Posted on 10/11/2023 12:07:25 AM PDT by Enterprise
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — More Californians with untreated mental illness and addiction issues could be detained against their will and forced into treatment under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, a move to help overhaul the state’s mental health system and address its growing homelessness crisis.
The new law, which reforms the state’s conservatorship system, expands the definition of “gravely disabled” to include people who are unable to provide themselves basic needs such as food and shelter due to an untreated mental illness or unhealthy drugs and alcohol use. Local governments say current state laws leave their hands tied if a person refuses to receive help.
The law is designed to make it easier for authorities to provide care to people with untreated mental illness or addictions to alcohol and drugs, many of whom are homeless.
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The homeless need to be rounded up and put in camps far, far away from cities. they need food and shelter, sanitaries and medical staff to start seperating the mentals from the druggies and then each sent to their own camps for further evaluation and treatment.
hiw is any ofthis going to happen with bleeding heart liberals running the media and government.
blacks would call it racist.
without God its hopeless.
Hmmmm. Sounds strangely close to forced institutionalism. Could a return to mental hospitals be next? Seems we have already flown over the cookoos nest.
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