It feels as if mental health treatment is one of the most intractable problems we have had since Ronald Reagan emptied the institutions.
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Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) January 17, 2013So the “patient rights” movement pushed by the mental health advocate community and set in motion by the Kennedy Administration in the early 1960s had nothing to do with deinstitutionalization. Yeah, right.
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