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Beyond Paternalism or Abandonment in Mental Health Care: An Interview with Neil Gong

Mad in America

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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Maryland Enacts a “Draconian” Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program

Mad in America

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.”