(The Atlantic) – Long-term involuntary treatment is back. Is it working?

For the past 50 years, the city has tried to hide from this problem in much the same way Ashley hides from her own. The general consensus in America has long been that people, regardless of how ill they are, should be given the greatest possible degree of autonomy. Now many political leaders—including the governor of California and the mayor of San Francisco—are acknowledging that Californians are dying in the streets from the freedom they’ve been afforded.

Those politicians are turning to what seems to be the only option left: forcing those who can’t take care of themselves into long-term involuntary treatment through a legal mechanism called conservatorship. (Read More)