Posted on Apr 1, 2023
When homelessness and mental illness overlap, is forced treatment compassionate?
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https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/31/ [login to see] /when-homelessness-and-mental-illness-overlap-is-compulsory-treatment-compassiona
Many of Portland's least fortunate live in tents pitched on sidewalks or in aging campers parked in small convoys behind grocery stores.
High housing costs and financial adversity are the primary root causes behind the burgeoning population on the streets; only about one in three people who are homeless in Portland report having a mental illness or a substance use disorder, or both.
But the combination of homelessness with substance use or untreated mental illnesses has led to a lot of very public tragedies.
People with schizophrenia, for example, have died of hypothermia on the city's streets. Residents have given birth out in the open, to premature infants who did not survive. Methamphetamine, cheaper and more harmful than it used to be, is creating a heightened risk of overdose and psychosis.
Many of Portland's least fortunate live in tents pitched on sidewalks or in aging campers parked in small convoys behind grocery stores.
High housing costs and financial adversity are the primary root causes behind the burgeoning population on the streets; only about one in three people who are homeless in Portland report having a mental illness or a substance use disorder, or both.
But the combination of homelessness with substance use or untreated mental illnesses has led to a lot of very public tragedies.
People with schizophrenia, for example, have died of hypothermia on the city's streets. Residents have given birth out in the open, to premature infants who did not survive. Methamphetamine, cheaper and more harmful than it used to be, is creating a heightened risk of overdose and psychosis.
When homelessness and mental illness overlap, is forced treatment compassionate?
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Portland
Mental Health
Homeless
Housing
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The day they started shutting down mental care facilities and shoving patients out into the street was a bad day for the USA. There has been a growing problem ever since.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Bedlam Asylum-Bethlehem Hospital - From Abyss of Madness to Modern Institution
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PO2 Marco Monsalve Not that the "Mental Hospitals" of the Day were that Much Better but the Mental Health Issues of the World were Less Obvious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwbmKbiiJbA
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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