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Happy Friday! This is @TarakTrivedi. I'm an Emergency Physician and research fellow at @NCSP_UCLA. For #NCSPScholarFriday, I want to share research and perspectives on systems of care for psychiatric emergencies.
2/ While training @HGHED in @AlamedaCounty, I cared for hundreds of patients in psychiatric crisis, and I learned about the roles of #EMS , #Police , and #EmergencyMedicine. For Psych Emergencies, many cities have 911 systems that look something like this: 
3/ Most places, Police are the de-facto response to 911 calls for psych-emergencies. As a result, Crisis-Intervention-Training (CIT) programs for police have proliferated, and even led to reduced arrests @NAMICommunicate #NCSPScholarFriday
