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The Killing Fields - Ep 26-330
Let’s talk about something that would have sounded absolutely insane in America twenty years ago.
The President of the United States is having to rebuild the machinery of mental-health treatment because we decided, as a society, that putting seriously disturbed people on the streets was somehow enlightened.
President Trump’s executive order is aimed at restoring civil commitment and expanding the ability of states and local governments to provide institutional treatment for people with serious mental illness who are dangerous, unable to care for themselves, or living on the streets. The order…
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