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New California Law Aims To Force People With Mental Illness Or Addiction To Get Help
https://www.kmjnow.com ^ | October 10, 2023 | KMJ News

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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TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: california; californication; newscum; newsom; tards
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Democrats as a group are mentally ill, so where can California put them all?
1 posted on 10/11/2023 12:07:25 AM PDT by Enterprise
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The problem is, Democrats define Conservatism as a mental illness. Those who depart from belief in the Biden regime’s talking points are defined as ‘conspiracy theorists’ who are mentally ill. Lately there have been some calls on the left to finally make it official and ‘forcefully’ ‘deprogram’ Republicans. So Newsom is pointing to ‘gravely ill’ people while in fact targeting those, for example, declined to ‘vaccinated’ even after being told millions will die if we don’t.


2 posted on 10/11/2023 12:17:44 AM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: Enterprise

Obviously, Gavvy is is pre-presidential-run mode, so he pivots to a rare common-sense measure. Ultimately, though, something like this is truly needed. The streets of S.F. and L.A. are filled to drug-crazed lunatics... and that’s not even counting the homeless. But seriously, it’s just common sense to recoganize that there are lot of people out there on the CA streets who absolutely do need to in some kind asylum and/or live-in drug rehab program.


3 posted on 10/11/2023 12:18:04 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: Enterprise

Conservatorship law, huh? Those are already greatly abused. I can’t wait to see how this turns out.


4 posted on 10/11/2023 12:24:27 AM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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"there are lot of people out there on the CA streets who absolutely do need to in some kind asylum"

I've seen my share friend.

5 posted on 10/11/2023 12:46:15 AM PDT by Enterprise
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They are people who need help, yes.

Are they people who want help, though?

I just came out of three and a half years in the mental health field. It would be nice if we could wave a wand or speak an incantation that makes a person have no more mental illness. But that's not going to happen. And often the biggest obstacle to better mental health is that the patient isn't willing to work toward his or her recovery.

It is impossible to help someone who refuses to do their own part in recovery.

6 posted on 10/11/2023 12:50:29 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (America will need de-liberalization just as Germany had de-nazification.)
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To: Enterprise

Coercion, disguised as cure.


7 posted on 10/11/2023 12:52:04 AM PDT by avenir ("For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form"!)
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To: irishjuggler

It needs to be called “incarceration”, not “help”.


8 posted on 10/11/2023 12:57:40 AM PDT by avenir ("For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form"!)
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To: Enterprise

State conservatorship. This will be used against people of means with whom the state ideologically disagrees.


9 posted on 10/11/2023 1:40:01 AM PDT by Gaffer
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“The problem is, Democrats define Conservatism as a mental illness”

And we them.

But well said. They are arguably more successful painting/encapsulating the public picture of “conservatism as mental illness”. We’re the weirdos. Marxism is normalized, because if it opposes conservatism it’s the signpost for whatever the hell non-mentally ill is.


10 posted on 10/11/2023 1:42:56 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (The Democrat breadlines will be gluten-free. )
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To: Enterprise

“force”?

I don’t like that word when connected to this govt.


11 posted on 10/11/2023 1:49:15 AM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

One of the biggest problems for recovering addicts are the friends they keep.


12 posted on 10/11/2023 1:58:07 AM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: Enterprise

Medical types and union thugs are natural Nazis.


13 posted on 10/11/2023 2:25:01 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: Enterprise

The reason there’s been such a large homeless problem over the past 40 years is because keeping loons committed was made illegal.

Institutions were emptied nation wide over the course of some years and surprise, surprise, homeless all over.


14 posted on 10/11/2023 2:33:28 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: Enterprise

How ‘bout Canada, where they can get their anti-psychotic medication for free.


15 posted on 10/11/2023 3:51:53 AM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: Enterprise

Mentally ill and addicted,as to where to put them, they’re already mainly on the west coast. Shipp the east coast liberal scum there, wall it off and hope for the big one.


16 posted on 10/11/2023 4:10:27 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Bullish

Hillary said MAGA supporters need to be “de-programmed”. Democrats always paint a normal rosy picture of what they want (like getting mentally ill off of the streets) and end up militarizing it against partisan enemies.


17 posted on 10/11/2023 4:31:55 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Biden would give Jesse James the train schedule for his 10%.)
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To: Enterprise

Sounds like a good idea.

But what will happen is the Democrats will use this to put political opponents in looney bins.

Any government will be abused by them.


18 posted on 10/11/2023 4:54:57 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: Enterprise

Sixty years after JFK set out to federalize mental hospitals and put the mentally ill into our neighborhoods, California is taking a step away from him.


19 posted on 10/11/2023 4:59:14 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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New California Law Aims To Force People With Mental Illness Or Addiction To Get Help

Does the law include people who think they are different gender? Asking for a friend.

20 posted on 10/11/2023 5:12:28 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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