“Reducing the Treatment Gap” Poses Human Rights Risks

[1]Professor in the Counseling Psychology Department and a faculty fellow at the Applied Ethics Center, University of Massachusetts Boston, United States, as well as co-founder of the Centre for Mental Health, Human Rights, and Social Justice, a multi-institutional platform dedicated to the study of rights-based approaches to mental health law, policy, and practices.

[2]Senior research fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of Exeter, UK, and a member of the Centre for Mental Health, Human Rights, and Social Justice.

[3]Senior lecturer at the College of Law at the University of the Philippines Diliman, Manila, Philippines; a drug policy expert at the United Nations Joint Programme for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights in the Philippines; and a member of the Centre for Mental Health, Human Rights, and Social Justice.

[4]Doctoral candidate in the Counseling Psychology Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston, United States.

[5]Director of the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy at the University of Essex, Colchester, UK, and co-founder of the Centre for Mental Health, Human Rights, and Social Justice.