Problem solving courts and Anti-social Personality Disorder

Some countries are more explicitly embracing the "BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF BEHAVIOR" than others.

• ​The US isn't treating mental health disorders with HYENAS but . . .
• We have been loathe to comply with DISABILITY LAWS even when we knew what to do, much less all those times we haven't been sure.

WHAT "ANTI-SOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER," SUBSTANCE PROBLEMS & "MENTAL ILLNESS" all have in COMMON is

NEURO-INFLAMMATION -- often DEVELOPMENTAL NEURO-INFLAMMATION

When we start to appreciate how DEVELOPMENTAL this is -- we start to appreciate what a MULTI-GENERATIONAL PROBLEM we have.

Most people have somebody / somebodies in their BIOLOGICAL or CHOSEN FAMILY that has serious mental health, substance and or criminal justice problems.

Having said that, MENTAL & PHYSICAL HEALTH aren't INTEGRATED THOROUGHLY --- we've just started that process.

That's important because a lot of these CLASSIC and NOT SO CLASSIC NEURO-DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS involve not only psychology and psychiatry BUT ALSO:

• IMMUNOLOGY
• ENDOCRINOLOGY
• the MICROBIOME
• etc.

With all this FLUX, I "think" the PUBLIC is going to want the SECURITY of a COURT to oversee a PIVOT to a PUBLIC HEALTH APPROACH to "Anti-Social Personality Disorder."

In these PROBLEM-SOLVING COURTS --- EPIDEMIOLOGISTS should have an IMPORTANT ROLE in Leading DATA COLLECTION efforts.  
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John Prine's "Summer's End"
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Substance Use is often associated with "Anti-Social Personality Disorder" 

Mental Health Courts Pro and Con

Anti-Social Personality Disorder and Australian Law Reform

​Wilma Mankiller was the First Female Chief of the Cherokee Nation.