The primary cause of homelessness is two-fold: 1. The Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 that closed all Federal mental health institutions, leaving the communi

The primary cause of homelessness is two-fold: 1. The Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 that closed all Federal mental health institutions, leaving the community of psychiatrists to wrestle with the tough border cases while still tenuously mingling with the locals: totally dismantling the 1946—P.L. 79-487, the National Mental Health Act. 2. The FDA authorized take-home of SSRI and SNRI medicine in 1981 and 1982 respectively. This also marked the rise of mass-shooting in psychopharmacology profiles of such deceased shooters. https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/7684.pdf https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/7684.pdf We have come full circle from no psychiatric drugs (1820s) to full anti-psychiatry movement today.