Newsom owns another California crisis along with the homeless problem. State’s mental health issues make homelessness worse and are linked to the prison system.
A study from San Jose State determined that of the nearly 19,000 seriously mentally ill in prison in 2015, almost 14,000 were there because of state hospital closures.
The homeless population of California is already filled with mentally ill people, some chronic, some suffering from reactive depression, few receiving treatment. It goes without saying that living on the streets of San Francisco or Los Angeles or San Diego in a homeless encampment is not the way to treat mental illness.
California’s dysfunctional approach towards mental health goes back decades and is only getting worse. There has been a long focus on de-institutionalizing those with severe mental health problems, which sounds humane in theory, but not without the community-based services or housing to support it. I guarantee that SF residents’ plan to install big planters to interfere with encampments will be useless. The government throws money at the problem, but that is merely cosmetic, a tough word to apply amid the stench of human waste and sewage. The shelter system is extensive in New York City, and while it is far from perfect, and is also riddled with crime and mental illness, it is still an improvement over California, where the vast majority of the homeless population has no shelter.
Newsom told Hannity that he has a $15.3 billion dollar plan to fight homelessness in California. But solving this problem doesn’t mean throwing money at it, it means changing the culture. Creating the housing, extending treatment for depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and psychosis. And providing hospital beds or homes rather than prison cells for those who need them. Marc Siegel, M.D. is a professor of medicine and medical director of Doctor Radio at NYU Langone Medical Center.
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