Mental Health and Mental Disorders

This dataset captures short-term emergency commitment laws in effect from October 1, 2014 through February 1, 2016. 

This dataset explores long-term involuntary commitment laws in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

This map identifies and displays key features of involuntary outpatient commitment laws across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, from January 1, 2000 to March 1, 2016.

Published on PDAPS.org, this dataset details involuntary commitment laws along a number of key parameters to assist researchers, policymakers, members of the media, and others in understanding the current landscape of civil commitment policy across the U.S. as it relates to substance use.