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NEW VIDEO SHOWCASES ASSISTED OUTPATIENT TREATMENT

Award-winning Nevada County has produced a half-hour video showing how it uses AOT so successfully. Click the link to watch Assisted Outpatient Treatment: The Nevada County Experience or to forward it to policy makers, mental health professionals and others in a position to put AOT to work on behalf of those with untreated severe mental illness.

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News and Commentary

I Changed My Mind on Involuntary Commitment – personally speaking
(May 24, 2013) The enclosed check is a small token of my appreciation of Dr. Torrey and Fred Frese. I got to know ...
SAMHSA Funds Groups That Contribute to Tragedy
(May 23, 2013) The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) funds advocacy groups that oppose effective treatment laws and denies the existence ...
Does SAMHSA Deny the Existence of Severe Mental Illness?
(May 22, 2013) The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMSHA) ignores people with the most severe mental illnesses and instead funds advocacy ...
"Clinicians Ignore This Reality at Their Own Risk"
(May 21, 2013) For a community mental illness treatment strategy to meet the needs the full spectrum of individuals with mental health challenges, ...
What Happens When the Mental Health System Fails?
(May 20, 2013) Whenever Charlene McNally Fears went off her lithium, the caring mother and grandmother turned into a different – and dangerous ...