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Amanda Bynes has left the hospital after being placed on a psychiatric hold last month. On Tuesday, April 11, a source close to the situation confirmed to NBC News that the 37-year-old actor has ...
Peter Kramer/AP/Shutterstock Amanda Bynes has reportedly been placed under a 72-hour psychiatric hold, a source close to the situation told NBC News on Monday, March 20. Amanda Bynes Through the ...
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Commitment proceedings often follow a period of emergency hospitalization, during which an individual with acute psychiatric symptoms is confined for a relatively short duration (e.g. 72 hours) in a treatment facility for evaluation and stabilization by mental health professionals who may then determine whether further civil commitment is ...
The Lanterman–Petris–Short (LPS) Act (Chapter 1667 of the 1967 California Statutes, codified as Cal. Welf & Inst. Code, sec. 5000 et seq.) regulates involuntary civil commitment to a mental health institution in the state of California. The act set the precedent for modern mental health commitment procedures in the United States.
A source confirms to NBC News that Bynes is on a 72-hour hold with the insider adding "she hasn't been in contact with her family for quite some time." Yahoo reached out to Bynes's lawyer and ...
“Clance, they have you on a 72-hour suicide hold—” “Stop right there. Please don’t say ‘suicide’ to me right now. I am so sick of the word suicide. I am not going to kill myself.” He spoke right over me. “—and then they have to release you. As long as you don’t do anything else.
Toby Fischer lives in South Dakota, where just 27 doctors are certified to prescribe buprenorphine -- a medication that blunts the symptoms of withdrawal from heroin and opioid painkillers. A Huffington Post analysis of government data found nearly half of all counties in America don't have such a certified physician. So every month, Fischer and his mother drive to Colorado to pick up their ...