Patients describe serious harms, including high coercion and a systematic lack of due process.

Involuntary psychiatric treatment is a cornerstone of Donald Trump’s mental health policy, and liberal governors like Gavin Newsom, Kathy Hochul, and Wes Moore have also increasingly embraced coercive approaches to mental health care. Yet a central question often goes unaddressed by the lawmakers putting forth these policies: What happens when we force people to accept psychiatric care via court…

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