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"The system is
not only overburdened by sheer numbers of clients; it is also burdened by its insistence
that people whose mental capacity is impaired weigh their options and make informed
choices."
From "Victims of laws that were meant
to save them," The
Cleveland Plain Dealer, January 20, 2002
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COMMENTARY In the probate court it is not uncommon to hear someone cry, "Somebody help me!"
Journal News (Hamilton, Ohio), Oct. 10, 2002
NEWS Butler County Probate Court gained
national attention Thursday for its innovative approaches to handling mental health
issues. "The biggest problem in the mental illness treatment field has been
fragmentation, a lack of coordination. Here [in Butler County, Ohio,] I see an
extraordinary integration of the court, treatment programs, the community and the local
government," [Mary Zdanowicz] said. Zdanowicz said she was also impressed with how
[Judge Randy Rogers] has spearheaded the effort to provide better service to the mentally
ill through his court. "Sadly some judges don't want to deal with these cases. It
takes a real heart commitment to do it," she said."
Journal News (Hamilton, Ohio), June 28, 2002
PREVENTABLE TRAGEDIES The Preventable Tragedies database includes summaries of news articles of which an individual with a neurobiological brain disorder (usually untreated) is involved in a violent episode, either as a victim or perpetrator. Search for Ohio episodes by choosing OH in the drop down box.
"This was a vicious act, but I understand it was a
chemical imbalance. Putting him in jail would be like punishing him for a disease." |
EDITORIAL The system is not only overburdened by sheer numbers of clients; it
is also burdened by its insistence that people whose mental capacity is impaired weigh
their options and make informed choices. By that reasoning, freezing on the street,
stopping medication that enables the ill to function and depending instead on public
largess are decisions society must accept. Even if those decisions kill them. Or someone
else.
"Victims of laws that were meant to save
them," Cleveland Plain Dealer, January 20, 2002
Clark County taxpayers spent more money medicating jail
inmates last month than feeding them. Prescription drugs for residents of the Clark County
Jail cost $21,028 in July, about $1,500 more than food costs, according to a sheriff's
department expense report. "That's a first," said Monika Weicht, budget director
for the department. |
STUDY RESULTS The preliminary
results of a new study on violence and schizophrenia demonstrate the importance of
medication compliance in decreasing violent behavior. The study, which is still ongoing,
is taking place in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, which includes Cleveland. It compares
individuals with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder who are incarcerated in the
county jail and who have a history of violent behavior with individuals with a similar
diagnosis but no history of violent behavior at two community mental health centers.
"New study sheds light on medication compliance and violence," Catalyst
newsletter, Treatment Advocacy Center, September/October 2001
EDITORIAL What kind of system waits to invoke mandatory medication until a man
so severely ill has killed two people? The kind that insists on presuming that an
irrational man makes rational decisions about his mental-health care. The kind that then
fails both the incompetent and the innocent.
'Rights' leave mentally ill families in legal
limbo," Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 8, 1999
PERSONAL ACCOUNT Frederick Frese's astonishing story is simply this: Thirty years
ago, he was locked up in an Ohio mental hospital, dazed and delusional, with paranoid
schizophrenia. Twelve years later, he had become the chief psychologist for the very
mental hospital system that had confined him. [Dr. Frese was appointed to a federal panel in September 2006 ...)
Psychologist overcomes paranoid schizophrenia,
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