Concerns:The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act

I signed this petition because I believe it is unconstitutional in nature, in that it seeks to deprive a class of people from their constitutional rights without proper due process rights. By medicalizing this issue it hides what it is truly about and that is both social control and enhancing control and financial profit for both the psychiatric and pharmaceutical industries. These goals fly in the face of the Recovery Movement that has allegedly been adopted by this county's efforts to address both mental health and substance abuse problems. It also violates Supreme Court decisions such as Olmstead and ignores a majority of scholarship that demonstrates that community placement with adequate social support is the key to best outcomes. It also blatantly ignored vital aspects of the Recovery Model such as Self Determination and Trauma Informed Care which the Murphy Bill doesn't address at all, except in the negative. Listen to the real experts on mental health: the consumers! We know more about what we need to do well than anyone else, more than our families, more than our doctors, exceedingly more than the CEOs of pharmaceutical industries and more than our legislators. There are many more things we could use to make things better, but this bill with its draconian features is not it! Scrap this bill and begin again except this time let top notch consumers and their selected advocates be the principle authors of the bill. Stop Murphy's Folly!