Individuals with serious mental illness are well known to be grossly overrepresented in the nation’s criminal justice and social safety-net systems. Making up barely 3% of the adult population, those […]
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Emptying the ‘New Asylums’: A Beds Capacity Model to Reduce Mental Illness Behind Bars
In 2016, an estimated 90,000 US jail inmates were pretrial defendants with serious mental illness who had been found incompetent to stand trial (IST). IST services most commonly take place […]
Released, Relapsed, Rehospitalized: Length of Stay and Readmission Rates in State Hospitals, A Comparitive State Survey
After a half-century of eliminating beds for patients with severe mental illness, the United States is in the midst of an unparalleledpsychiatric bed shortage. Driven by the shortage, the length […]
Serious Mental Illness Prevalence in Jails and Prisons
Serious mental illness has become so prevalent in the US corrections system that jails and prisons are now commonly called “the new asylums.” In point of fact, the Los Angeles […]
Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder and Suicide
The Centers for Disease Control reported in 2016 that suicide rates rose significantly from 2009 to 2014 and that the rise in suicide rates accelerated beginning in 2006. In 2014, […]
Psychiatric Bed Supply Need Per Capita
The United States is in the midst of a psychiatric bed shortage that worsens every year. By early 2016, the practice of closing state mental hospitals, often called “deinstitutionalization,” had […]
Individuals with Serious Mental Illness in County Jails: A Survey of Jail Staff’s Perspectives
Going, Going, Gone: Trends and Consequences of Eliminating State Psychiatric Beds
The number of last-resort psychiatric hospital beds that remain in state hospitals for patients whose treatment is not being, or cannot be, adequately addressed in a community setting has fallen […]
Raising Cain: The Role of Serious Mental Illness in Family Homicides
Most individuals with serious mental illness are not dangerous. However, a small number may become dangerous to themselves or to others, particularly when untreated or abusing alcohol or other substances. […]
Risk Factors for Violence in Serious Mental Illness
Most individuals with serious mental illness are not dangerous. Most acts of violence are committed by individuals who are not mentally ill. Individuals with serious mental illness are victimized by […]
Serious Mental Illness and Homicide
US and international to date research suggests that individuals with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are responsible for approximately 10% of all homicides in the United States. For mass killings, the […]
Antipsychotic Medications and the Brain
Changes in brain structure are caused both by the disease process of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and by the antipsychotic drugs used to treat these diseases. Different antipsychotic drugs may […]
10 Ways Women with SMI Are Overrepresented and Underserved
Compared with men with the same psychiatric diseases and with women in the general population, women with conditions such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder and major depression are: More […]
What is AOT?
Assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) is the practice of delivering outpatient treatment under court order to adults with severe mental illness who meet specific criteria, such as a prior history of […]
Overlooked in the Undercounted: The Role of Mental Illness in Fatal Law Enforcement Encounters
Enormous attention has been focused in recent years on the lack of complete and accurate official statistics reporting fatal law enforcement encounters. Barely noted in the uproar has been the […]