MedPage Today January 3, 2024
— Eric Reinhart, MD, discusses the need for Chicago’s new “Treatment Not Trauma” policy
In this exclusive video, Eric Reinhart, MD, a political anthropologist, psychoanalyst, and medical resident at Northwestern University in Chicago, discusses the “Treatment Not Trauma” campaign. This initiative by the Chicago Collaborative for Community Wellness seeks to create a crisis response for mental health-related emergencies and to reopen a number of Chicago mental health clinics.
The following is a transcript of his remarks:
Treatment Not Trauma is an initiative that’s been years in the making in Chicago that’s been embraced by the new mayor, Brandon Johnson. [It’s] a policy agenda to build a robust non-police crisis response system for the city of Chicago and to reopen a...