What&#x27;s there to say? Involuntary mental health commitment in the US is a disaster. The doctors operating state-run mental health prisons are overworked and underqualified. And, if you&#x27;ve had run-ins with the doctors operating <i>private</i> mental health hospitals, you know that&#x27;s saying something!<p>Lopez was apparently armed and, from the picture painted in this article, pretty much unhinged. Something needed to be done. But the only &quot;something&quot; the criminal justice system has in its bag of things is, by pretty much all accounts everywhere, a total debacle.<p>Are things better in other countries? Who&#x27;s doing this well? What does Norway do?