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| Lawmakers overhaul system to create ‘no wrong door’ to mental health treatment |
| By miamiherald.com- Michael Auslen |
| Published: 03/28/2016 |
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TALLAHASSEE Something Judge Steve Leifman said in his Miami courtroom made the psychologist standing before him snap. Those aren’t my parents, the doctor — who had been calm moments earlier — screamed, pointing out the man and woman in the back of the room who had raised him, sent him off to Harvard and worked to find him the help he needed. My parents died in the Holocaust. Those people were sent by the CIA. They want to kill me. It was clear that the man needed help, thought Leifman. But under state law, he wasn’t empowered to commit him to a facility where he could be treated for a mental illness. “It was horrifying. This was a full-blown psychotic man,” Leifman said. “I had no choice but to release him.” Read More. |
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