Conditions & Recovery · STAT News · June 22, 2026

Opinion: I work in a psychiatric ER. I’m watching the system fail people in real time

The psychiatric ER is “a detox center for those with no safe place to withdraw and a respite center for caregivers at their breaking point,” writes a psychiatrist.

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