Backgrounders
Anosognosia: A cause of violent behavior in individuals with severe psychiatric disorders (March 2011)
Assisted Outpatient Treatment (January 2012)
Do antipsychotic drugs change brain structure? (March 2011)
How unawareness of illness increases violent behavior (March 2011)
Schizophrenia as a brain disease: Studies of individuals who have never been treated (March 2011)
Stigma: Violence by seriously mentally ill persons is its major cause (March 2011)
Suicide: One of the consequences of failing to treat individuals with severe psychiatric disorders (March 2011)
The effects of involuntary commitment and involuntary medication on individuals with severe mental illnesses (March 2011)
Victimization: One of the consequences of failing to treat individuals with severe mental illnesses (March 2011)
What percentage of individuals with severe psychiatric disorders are receiving no treatment? (March 2011)
Why individuals with severe psychiatric disorders often do not take their medications (April 2011)
Reports and Studies
The Impact of Mental Illness on Law Enforcement Resources (December 2011) - adapted and published by the Treatment Advocacy Center from "Management of the Severely Mentally Ill and Its Effects on Homeland Security," a postgraduate thesis by Chief of Police
Michael Biasotti for the Naval Postgraduate School
More Mentally Ill Persons Are in Jails and Prisons Than Hospitals (May 2010)
Jails/Prisons and Hospitals: 50-State Table (May 2010)
Problems Associated With Mentally Ill Individuals in Public Libraries (March/April 2009)
The Shortage of Public Hospital Beds for Mentally Ill Persons (March 2008)
A Federal Failure in Psychiatric Research: Continuing NIMH Negligence in Funding Sufficient Research on Serious Mental Illnesses, (November 2003)
Studies of Individuals with Schizophrenia Never Treated with Antipsychotic Medications: A Review
Threats to Radio and Television Station Personnel in the United States by Individuals with Severe Mental Illnesses (1999)
