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North Carolina officials confront broken involuntary commitment system
Original: ‘The story is always the same’: NC officials confront broken involuntary commitment system
North Carolina officials and health leaders are speaking out about failures in the state's involuntary commitment process, the legal mechanism for compelling people in mental health crisis into evaluation or treatment. According to North Carolina Health News, officials describe repeated, familiar breakdowns in how the system handles people in crisis, with one saying 'the story is always the same.' The reporting has prompted renewed calls to fix a process many say leaves patients and families without timely help.
Why now: Renewed official criticism of a long-troubled mental health commitment process has drawn public attention in North Carolina.
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