mental illness

^{Bruce Chapman
June 27, 2022
Economics}

Republicans Could Lead on Mental Health Treatment

_{Bruce Chapman
June 27, 2022
Economics}

Tucked away in the gun law President Biden just signed is a provision increasing funding for preventive outpatient treatment for mental illness. This is an important step toward solving America’s mental-health crisis but only part of what’s needed. Read More ›

^{Caitlin Bassett
November 2, 2021
Economics}

President of Orange County Rescue Mission Explains Homelessness

_{Caitlin Bassett
November 2, 2021
Economics}

The Orange County Rescue Mission is the largest non-profit faith-based organization in the Orange, Riverside, and San Diego Counties. Incredibly, it houses 500-600 people within their many facilities at any given time and serves over 19,800 people in the community. Read More ›

^{Caitlin Bassett
August 20, 2021
Economics}

New Washington State Laws Fail Mentally Ill

_{Caitlin Bassett
August 20, 2021
Economics}

A recent apartment fire in the Seattle area could have been prevented had law enforcement been empowered to provide true help to a man in mental distress. Read More ›

Blue light flasher atop of a police car. City lights on the background.

^{Caitlin Bassett
June 18, 2021
Economics}

Caitlin Bassett Discusses Washington State Police Reforms on The Lars Larson Show

_{Caitlin Bassett
June 18, 2021
Economics}

Discovery Institute's Caitlin Basset joined Lars Larson to explain how Washington State's new police reforms, which are intended to protect citizens from excessive uses of force, are actually putting the mentally ill at more risk. Read More ›

^{Caitlin Bassett
June 17, 2021
Economics}

Washington State Police Reforms Fail the Mentally Ill

_{Caitlin Bassett
June 17, 2021
Economics}

When Governor Jay Inslee signed into law a dozen new polic reforms on May 18, he called them "a moral mandate" that would “create a system of accountability and integrity stronger than anywhere else in the nation.” Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
March 26, 2021
Economics}

The Invisible Asylum

_{Christopher Rufo
March 26, 2021
Economics}

The story of American deinstitutionalization has become familiar. In a long arc—from President Kennedy’s Community Mental Health Act of 1963 to the present—federal and state governments dismantled mental asylums and released the psychiatrically disturbed into the world. Read More ›

desperate man in silhouette sitting on the bed with hands on head

^{Wesley J. Smith
October 1, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

Autonomy or Abandoning the Mentally Ill?

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 1, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

A U.K. woman with anorexia is in danger of starving to death and courts there will not allow force-feeding to save her life because she has decision-making capacity. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
September 17, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

Assisted Suicide is Never a Treatment for Mental Illness

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 17, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

Addressing the UK's All-Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley Smith said that activists and pressure groups often use fear, in particular fear-mongering on the difficulties of death, to push through their agenda. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
March 10, 2020
Economics}

Plot Twist

_{Christopher Rufo
March 10, 2020
Economics}

Homelessness has been circumscribed around a set of premises acceptable to progressive opinion. The homeless were thrown onto the streets, we’re told, because of rising rents, heartless landlords, and a lack of economic opportunity. But new data are undermining this narrative. Read More ›