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Nev Jones
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Assoc Prof Social Work- Democratizing Psychiatry - Critical Public Mental Health - Lived Experience & Disability Justice
July 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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9/9 How should we fund this better approach? "Slow the cash flow to law enforcement, reject wasteful and ineffective involuntary care, and reclaim simply caring, as we do in Canada, for each other."

Dr. Bonnie Larson, community physician, The Tyee
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
We Need Alternatives to Alberta’s Compassionate Intervention Act | The Tyee
A doctor calls for better investments in housing and mental health care, not policing.
thetyee.ca
May 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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8/9 Prevention is possible—through investment in supportive housing and accessible healthcare with on-demand access to voluntary mental health supports, not through expanded policing powers and involuntary detention.
#Prevention #SocialSupports
May 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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6/9 They recently observed this system in action—a disoriented man outside the hospital, likely experiencing psychosis, immediately surrounded by six officers in cruisers rather than receiving healthcare, despite being steps from a hospital entrance.
#Crisis #Response
May 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Here is a key paragraph:

The proposal would reduce the more than $47 billion budget of the NIH to $27 billion — a roughly 40 percent cut. It would consolidate NIH’s 27 institutes and centers into just eight.

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April 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM