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<blockquote data-quote="Glocktogo" data-source="post: 3090814" data-attributes="member: 1132"><p>It's a lot of people's fault in this case and they run the gamut as far as sociopolitical leanings.</p><p></p><p>Mental health "reform" goes back to Dorothea Dix in the mid 1800's, when she led reform to move the insane from prisons to psychiatric hospitals and state facilities. That lasted about a hundred years, when "deinstitutionalization" commenced in the mid 1950's. The thought was that people no longer needed to be institutionalized due to advances in drug therapies. For a great many people, it works and has continued to improve. But that's only for those who can be trusted to take their meds regularly, or be in the care of someone who will ensure the meds are taken by those who can't be trusted. For the rest it's the streets, or jail and prison.</p><p></p><p>If you have time to read them, here are a couple of great articles on the topic to see how we've gotten where we are, and another on how we might be starting to swing back towards institutions, at least for some of the toughest cases.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/asylums/special/excerpt.html" target="_blank">https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/asylums/special/excerpt.html</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-mental-patients-began.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-mental-patients-began.html?pagewanted=all</a></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7bdpjz/the-life-death-and-possible-resurrection-of-the-asylum" target="_blank">https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7bdpjz/the-life-death-and-possible-resurrection-of-the-asylum</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Glocktogo, post: 3090814, member: 1132"] It's a lot of people's fault in this case and they run the gamut as far as sociopolitical leanings. Mental health "reform" goes back to Dorothea Dix in the mid 1800's, when she led reform to move the insane from prisons to psychiatric hospitals and state facilities. That lasted about a hundred years, when "deinstitutionalization" commenced in the mid 1950's. The thought was that people no longer needed to be institutionalized due to advances in drug therapies. For a great many people, it works and has continued to improve. But that's only for those who can be trusted to take their meds regularly, or be in the care of someone who will ensure the meds are taken by those who can't be trusted. For the rest it's the streets, or jail and prison. If you have time to read them, here are a couple of great articles on the topic to see how we've gotten where we are, and another on how we might be starting to swing back towards institutions, at least for some of the toughest cases. [URL]https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/asylums/special/excerpt.html[/URL] [URL]http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-mental-patients-began.html?pagewanted=all[/URL] [URL]https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7bdpjz/the-life-death-and-possible-resurrection-of-the-asylum[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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