Posted by syringachalet on March 7, 2003, at 5:43:56
In reply to Re: Forcing mentally ill to take drugs - NY Times, posted by stjames on March 6, 2003, at 12:25:03
The biggest pouring out of the state mental hospitals was both in the 1950s and the 1970s.
In the 1970s, the federal government started handing out grant moneys for community-based mental health centers for patients to be followed-up while they supposedly lived in small group homes or indepedently.
Today most of the severely chronically mentally ill still exist in small group home settings and are maintained on medications that are monitored and paid for by Medicaid. In my state, group home placement is $2,500/month plus any meds and treatments the MD thinks will help the residents quality of life.
I keep wondering what will we all do when we are little old crazy people when our livers are shot from all the meds we took to just keep our wits about us...
Just babbling...
syringachalet
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