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Hospitals were closed with the release of new drugs that promised to treat mental illnesses. They didn’t deliver, but the hospitals were closed anyway.
by david38 3y ago
Hospitals were closed with the release of new drugs that promised to treat mental illnesses. They didn’t deliver, but the hospitals were closed anyway.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- duped 3y ago...and the fact people were horribly abused, it became widely published, and public outcry was a big factor in closing the "hospitals" that didn't treat their patients.
- KennyBlanken 3y ago[flagged]
- duped 3y agoIt wasn't a fictional narrative, it actually happened. We can agree that the results were worse but you can't pretend that the abuse was made up by Republicans.
- more_corn 3y agoThe history of women being sent to mental hospitals for being uppity is pretty clear.
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoSomeone here once linked to this story: https://archive.ph/PrGLB https://archive.ph/PrGLB
- KennyBlanken 3y agoThat is a truly wild bunch of historical revisionism. In the 70's there was a push for greater mental health treatment. Reagan repealed the Mental Health Systems Act (the result of a commission under Carter) as part of his "small government" mantra. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Health_Systems_Act_of_1980 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Health_Systems_Act_of_1... Reagan was elected as a conservative backlash to Carter's progressive policies. We're talking about someone so petty he ripped functioning solar panels off the roof of the White House.
- 15155 3y ago"Solar panels" - makes these sound like they were photovoltaics and not leaky solar waters heaters. They leaked water, something you do not want happening in a historical property. Reagan made a lot of terrible choices, removing leaky containers from one one of our nation's most iconic historic buildings is not among them.