Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

And even for the individual, you don’t really know what the course of your life might have been if you hadn’t gone down this medicated path. Whitaker: That’s why we need a grassroots rebellion. We’ve talked about the fact that the change is not going to come from those in power.

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Mad in America

JULY 17, 2024

Broadly, it was driven by well-documented abuse and neglect in asylums, spiraling hospital costs, and an overly optimistic faith in new medications. The idea was to release some prisoners who were incarcerated for drug offenses into the community and build up a community support system.

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Mad in America

MAY 4, 2024

Yet, in many of America’s underfunded and under-resourced community-based systems, it is often impossible for people to access care until and unless they are in a crisis. A previous version of the bill said that such documents would be “considered”; in the final version, that word was crossed out and changed to “honored.”

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