Trump, RFK Jr. Are Pushing Psychiatric Confinement, Not Mental Health Care

We cannot allow history to repeat itself. That means Congress must fully fund the Protection and Advocacy program at or above $40 million; preserve and expand the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s community-based programs; and reject all efforts to lower civil commitment standards or expand coercive institutionalization, writes associate professor Nev Jones in an op-ed in The Hill.