tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post4864098071030410347..comments2024-03-28T18:57:15.124-06:00Comments on Wash Park Prophet: The Psych Bed Crisis in DenverAndrew Oh-Willekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post-7545438775320455462010-03-29T20:51:21.378-06:002010-03-29T20:51:21.378-06:00Outpatient drug treatment is a lower intensity alt...Outpatient drug treatment is a lower intensity alternative to programs such as long-term <a href="http://recoverynowtv.com/" rel="nofollow">inpatient treatment</a>, and it offers the flexibility and structure necessary to begin recovery.Jazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02195553010364534406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post-5025886598305381632009-01-28T22:16:00.000-07:002009-01-28T22:16:00.000-07:00Well, here's another strategy that one could avail...Well, here's another strategy that one could avail himself to get long-term, throw-away-the-key mental health care. I personally vouch that it works:<BR/><BR/>(1) Get yourself an unskilled job at the Jefferson Center for Mental Health (or whichever county mental facility where the person you believe is in need of psychiatric services lives). Perhaps volunteer at the facility. Get to know the Clinical Director (e.g., of JCMH, it's Tom Olbrich). If the director is male, it probably wouldn't hurt if you're female.<BR/><BR/>(2) Over a span of a couple of weeks, get to know the cops in the neighborhood of the person you believe is in need of mental health treatment. Tell them the person is mentally ill, not taking his/her medications, and is likely engaging in bizarre behaviors, like smearing blood and feces on the interior walls of his or her home. Mention that you work at a mental health facility and know the person well. Mention one or more diagnosis (it is likely that one or more of the officers will be familiar with the alleged ailment, so memorize the symptoms and provide descriptions that are corroborative).<BR/><BR/>(3) After a few weeks have passed, go file a Mental Health Hold under C.R.S. § 27-10-106. Make up some fantastic, outrageous allegations concerning the person you care about that are consistent, in part, with what you told the police. Make certain that you allege that the person is an imminent danger to herself and/or the community. It helps to have an unethical attorney aid in the preparation of the petition.<BR/><BR/>(4) Once the petition is granted (it will be), ask your boss, the clinical director of the county-affiliated facility where you work (and where the treatment will be assigned by the court) to specify that the person should <B>not</B> be taken to one of the HMO facilities that Andy mentioned above (like, e.g., Lutheran / West Pines) and, instead, that he or she should be taken "to a more secure facility" like the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Ft. Logan (CMHIFL) or at Peublo. Olbrich will adopt the information you alleged to the court (or alternatively can give directly to him) and prepare a medical referral for CMHIFL that contains diagnostic information that you alleged, even `though the clinic never treated the person and never had access to his or her records. The CMHIFL will regard the referral as an officious, authoritative medical document and will not question the origin of the diagnostic statements. These will be recorded into the CMHIFL doctors' notes and orders as assumed facts.<BR/><BR/>(5) Once the person has been transported to CMHIFL, he or she will be placed into solitary confinement with no windows, a bed pan and stainless steel bed bolted to the floor. This "safe room" will be located in the "violent offenders' ward," as a proximate and actual result of your fraudulent petition & affidavit.<BR/><BR/>(6) Ask your unethical attorney to place numerous calls, faxes and personal meetings with the treatment staff of the facility claiming to be in fear of her life (it helps if the attorney is a woman and can feign fearfulness). The attorney should request a duty-to-warn for herself and you, so as to give the act credibility. The CMHIFL staff understand this to mean that, if they don't err on the side of caution, they may have certain legal liabilities. By this point, the rights of the patient and the "truth" are inconsequential.<BR/><BR/>The result of this strategy is that, under the "short term certification" statute, the person you believe is in need of critical psychiatric care will receive at least three (3) months of free, intensive psychiatric medicating, sedation, confinement and traumatization by placement in proximity with pedophiles and murderers. During this time, the person will valiantly attempt to prove his or her sanity, while the doctors note in their logs, "PT denies homicidal ideology. . . staff is concerned that he may be faking high functioning & coherency."<BR/><BR/>Under C.R.S. § 27-10-108, the 3 month certification may be extended another 3 mos. Under C.R.S. § 27-10-109, a long-term certification of 6 mos. or longer may be ordered by the court.<BR/><BR/>For those who doubt the veracity of this strategy, I've seen it successfully employed in Case No. 00MH243 (district court, Jefferson County) and a variation was employed in 95MH155 (District Court, Boulder County).<BR/><BR/>The foregoing is not legal advice and you should not act or refrain from acting based on anything suggested herein. There are numerous unethical attorneys in the Denver metropolitan area that would be happy to assist you with this scheme.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com