Re:Society can deal with seriously mentally ill homeless people
by nubinetwork on Monday July 29, 2024 @04:33AM
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> For the author the answer is to never release them, which for the numbers of people involved is a horrifying idea
That's western medicine for you... lock them up, pump them full of drugs, and make sure they are a continuous drain of government resources. All to the benefit of pharma companies.
Most acute mental health patients aren't a lifetime problem, unless we make them that way. We barely know what 10 years of diet pills do to people, let alone the magical concoction of drugs we force on other patients.
That's western medicine for you... lock them up, pump them full of drugs, and make sure they are a continuous drain of government resources. All to the benefit of pharma companies.
Most acute mental health patients aren't a lifetime problem, unless we make them that way. We barely know what 10 years of diet pills do to people, let alone the magical concoction of drugs we force on other patients.