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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not excusing Neely's behavior, but I don't think most people realize how difficult it is to 1) get someone into psychiatric and/or substance use treatment 2) keep them there for the required amount of time, and 3) have them take their medication regularly when they get out. It's almost impossible. I know this because close family friends have gone through hell to help their adult bipolar/substance-using son. This is a white, UMD family with loving, caring parents and good health insurance. After years of the son cycling through rehab programs, the parents worked with local authorities to make him a ward of the state in order to avail of treatment after their insurance would no longer cover it. He cycles between jail, the psych ward, and state-supported treatment programs with no end in sight and no hope of improving. Sometimes he is homeless; sometimes he stays in state-funded housing for recovering alcoholics/addicts. No one can force him to take his medication when he is not in jail or not in a treatment facility. Imagine how much worse it is for mentally ill/substance users with weak family ties and few or no financial resources. Again, not an excuse but just trying to provide some context on how very difficult the challenge is.[/quote]

+10000  if someone thinks more drug rehab programs or mental health counseling will fix the depth of mental problems the homeless have, they’re either very naïve or shilling their own services. The missing piece of this puzzle is institutional homes. [/quote]
Let’s use jails instead just as an interim solution while the politicians figure it out? 
-DP[/quote]

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