NYC mayor plans to involuntarily hospitalize more mentally ill people

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announces new initiative that will involuntarily hospitalize more mentally ill people

Nov 29, 2022 by CBS News

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  • Politics November 29, 2022 / 3:07 PM / CBS News Mayor Eric Adams makes mental health treatment announcement Mayor Eric Adams makes mental health treatment announcement 17:53 New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced an initiative that would give the city more leeway to involuntarily hospitalize severely mentally ill people on the city's subways and streets, even if they do not appear to pose an immediate danger to others.
  • "My administration is determined to do more to assist people with mental illness, especially those with untreated psychotic disorders, posing a risk of harm to themselves, even if they are not an imminent threat to the public," Adams said Tuesday.
  • He said the policy he's proposing "explicitly states" when it is appropriate to use this process to hospitalize a person suffering from mental illness even if they do not want to go.
  • Adams said he believed the law should "require hospital evaluators to consider not just how the person is acting at the moment of evaluation but also their treatment history, recent behavior in the community, and whether they are ready to adhere to outpatient treatment."

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