Rob Wipond: The Rising Rates, Uses, & Impacts of Psychiatric Detention & Forced Treatment (Oct 2023)

Journalist Rob Wipond presents The Rising Rates, Expanding Uses, and Often-Traumatizing Impacts of Psychiatric Detention and Forced Treatment at On Our Own of Maryland’s Coercion Isn’t Care: Confronting Forced Psychiatric Treatment virtual symposium on October 25, 2023.
Rob Wipond is a freelance investigative journalist who writes frequently about the interfaces between psychiatry, civil rights, community issues, policing, surveillance and privacy, and social change. His articles have been nominated for seventeen magazine and journalism awards in science, law, business, and public issues. He’s the author of the new book Your Consent is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships (BenBella, 2023).