Letter to the Editor: Right mental health treatment needed at right time

Dear Editor:
There is a missing piece in the current Senate Bill 169 on Gov. John Hickenlooper’s Desk: Psychiatric Care.

Being placed in a hospital or a jail in the middle of a mental health crisis tops any person’s worst-day-ever list. None of us hopes to reach that point, nor do we, our family members or friends suffer through such a time without proper psychiatric care.
Much of the conversation surrounding SB169, which aims to…