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Lynn Nanos, LICSW, author of the multi-award-winning and best-selling book, Breakdown: a Clinician's Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry

[Breakdown-book @Emerg_Psych]

My book, "Breakdown" (along with "Bedlam"), is in the top 20 psychiatry books of all time through the Book Authority, as featured on CNN and Forbes! https://t.co/7Cxv3LuZ8I

[Breakdown-book @Emerg_Psych]

"Dillon was put into an Uber headed toward downtown Baltimore City, nowhere near where we live. They thought sending him to a homeless shelter would help. He had no phone, no wallet, and just the clothes he was wearing." https://t.co/4nrKUEel7A

[Jhilam Biswas, MD @jhilambiswasmd]

“As a forensic psychiatrist who has treated serious mental illness in hospitals and in the correctional setting, I see the enormous psychological and physical trauma that patients endure in chronic untreated crises.” Thank you @bostonglobe @TreatmentAdvCtr

[Breakdown-book @Emerg_Psych]

@MentalHealth_MA @CorcoranAnn This is false. AOT has resulted in improved mental health outcomes. AOT especially helps people with psychosis who have anosognosia and who therefore cannot ask for help. https://t.co/MqLv23TG4k

[Breakdown-book @Emerg_Psych]

@MentalHealth_MA @CorcoranAnn MA already has a robust outpatient treatment system, which is perfect for AOT. Countless studies show that AOT reduces rates of homelessness, hospitalizations, and incarcerations.

[Breakdown-book @Emerg_Psych]

@MentalHealth_MA @CorcoranAnn We cannot ignore the needs of people who are most vulnerable. My book, "Breakdown," is dedicated to people who need the most help, yet who lack the capacity to request it. You should listen to family members, not just those who are sick.

[Breakdown-book @Emerg_Psych]

@MentalHealth_MA @CorcoranAnn Outpatient Rogers is totally ineffective. AOT is far superior. AOT is an evidence-based tool endorsed by SAMHSA! https://t.co/vBoWiM05yX

[Ann Corcoran RN MSN @CorcoranAnn]

@MentalHealth_MA @Emerg_Psych There is nothing like AOT in MA unless one is involved in the CJS which has punitive elements. There are peers throughout the country that have been through AOT and it has saved their lives. https://t.co/qkUcMDEjne?

[Breakdown-book @Emerg_Psych]

@MentalHealth_MA Assisted Outpatient Treatment reduces rates of homelessness, incarceration, and hospitalization. It is an effective, life-saving, and evidence-based tool.

[TAC @taccommunicate]

Jails and prisons are lethal places for people with severe mental illness. A system that responds to crisis by putting them there is a failure. https://t.co/uXEikALFbs

[Breakdown-book @Emerg_Psych]

"In the zeal to impeccably protect the patient's civil liberties and rights, an increasing number of troubled and psychotic patients are what I choose to term dying with their rights on" - psychiatrist Darold Treffert https://t.co/uJ9isGO2i4

[TAC @taccommunicate]

“'You want someone to remain stable a long enough amount of time to realize they do better with treatment and continue that on their own,' said @LisaDaileyTAC, executive director of the Treatment Advocacy Center."

Read more in @AP: https://t.co/xh1HHFV9HB

[Breakdown-book @Emerg_Psych]

Massachusetts is one of just three states without Assisted Outpatient Treatment! This is an evidence-based and life-saving tool especially for people with anosognosia and psychosis! https://t.co/BOKBRH6IMK

[Breakdown-book @Emerg_Psych]

All credible studies I've come across show the benefits of Assisted Outpatient Treatment. MA is one of just three states without this life-saving tool. https://t.co/vTuBvUA5uV

[Breakdown-book @Emerg_Psych]

https://t.co/9vEA5ibh6U #psychiatry #Schizophrenia #bipolardisorder #MentalHealthAwareness

[Breakdown-book @Emerg_Psych]

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[Michael Gray @jmichaelegray]

Thrilled to be on a panel this Friday in Indy to speak about the Medicaid #IMDexclusion and why either Congress or the courts must shut down this discriminatory law. Also excited to hear @TaraRagone speak on parity.

[Breakdown-book @Emerg_Psych]

Assisted Outpatient Treatment symposium of the @TreatmentAdvCtr in TX this past week!

[Brian Stettin @bstettin]

Agree w/almost every word in this & yet it left me frustrated. Prob is what's missing: acknowledgement that those robbed of insight will often want no part of the wonderful array of paid-for community-based services described. Need solutions for them too.
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[Deborah Geesling @DeborahGeesling]

Two victims. Totally preventable. #SMITwitter
https://t.co/OWF2Hdk0fS via @BostonGlobe