73: Understanding Involuntary Hospitalization Applications Submitted to an Urban Police Department

Dr. Kevin Simon (Harvard Medical School and Boston Public Health Commission) joins Dr. Dixon and Dr. Berezin to discuss the processes behind and concerns surrounding involuntary psychiatric hospitalization.

Transcript

• 01:03     Career path
• 03:42     Boston Public Health Commission
• 09:28     Collaborators
• 13:09     Section 12
• 16:14     Transportation
• 17:17     Rates of involuntary transport
• 22:29     Requests that don’t end in transport
• 23:42     Police involvement

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