Study: Many Allegheny County psych hospitalizations do more harm than good

The county and allied researchers zoomed in on some 40% of involuntary hospitalizations over a decade and found a trail of violence, overdose and suicide where stabilization and healing had been the goal.

by Venuri Siriwardane, Pittsburgh’s Public Source

Involuntary psychiatric hospitalization can put some people in Allegheny County on a path that leads to violence or death — outcomes that fly in the face of what civil commitment laws intended, new research has found…

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