by Lisa Halverstadt | November 3, 2017 Statement: “The county of San Diego is holding over $100 million in unspent Mental Health Services Act funds,” state Sen. Ben Hueso said at an Oct. 12 press conference where Democrats and labor leaders called on county supervisors to spend more to combat the region’s homelessness and hepatitis A crises. Determination: True Analysis: Democrats and homeless…
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by Jeff McDonald | San Diego Union Tribune Note: This article originally appeared in October, 2018 – while this blog’s author was serving on the Behavioral Health Advisory Board. Beginning three years earlier, and since this time he has actively, consistently, and as politely as possible been challenging the Behavioral Health Services (BHS) to change their hoarding behavior. To this…
by Lauren Mascarenhas | San Diego Union Tribune Note: This article originally appeared in August, 2015 – while this blog’s author was serving on the Behavioral Health Advisory Board. Since this time he has actively, consistently, and as politely as possible been challenging the Behavioral Health Services (BHS) to change their hoarding behavior. To this day, they insist because they…
Opinion: I needed emergency mental health care. As a doctor, I was distressed by what happened next.
Commentary | By Abbas Sedaghat | San Diego Union Tribune October 21, 2022 | Fair Use Reprint (Abbas) Sedaghat, M.D., is a retired professor of medicine with a 60-year career. His book “The Practice of Medicine in Three Continents: An Autobiography” was published this year. He lives in Rancho Bernardo. In February, I found myself alone, having retired from an…
72 hours: Inside San Diego County’s mental health crisis – a series by San Diego Union Tribune
Continuum of Care, Crisis Response, Focus & Commentary and Media
The San Diego Union Tribune (SDUT) spent over one year with dozens of journalists working to create this report on San Diego County’s emergency response system as it relates to people in behavioral health crisis. Here is an index of links to all of the individual parts of this series. 72 Hours: Inside San Diego County’s mental health crisis –…