The Role of Civil Commitment in the Opioid Crisis

Ish P Bhalla1, Nina Cohen1, Claudia E Haupt1

  • 1Ish Prasad Bhalla, M.D., is a fellow in forensic psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine. He received his B.S. from Case Western Reserve University and his M.D. from University of Toledo College of Medicine. Nina Cohen, J.D., received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr College and her MSc from the University of Oxford. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School in May 2018. Claudia E. Haupt, Ph.D., J.S.D., is a Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project and a Research Fellow at the Solomon Center for Health Law & Policy, both at Yale Law School. She received her first law degree and Ph.D. from the University of Cologne, her LL.M. from George Washington University, and her J.S.D. from Columbia Law School. Kate Stith, J.D., is the Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She received her B.A. from Dartmouth College, and her M.P.P. and J.D. from Harvard University. Rocksheng Zhong, M.D., M.H.S., is a fellow in forensic psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine. He received his A.B. from Harvard College and his M.D. and M.H.S. from the Yale School of Medicine.

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