GUNS DON’T KILL PEOPLE, THE MENTALLY ILL DO by Ann Coulter, January 16, 2013
The recent spate of multiple murders prove there are psychotics at large who need treatment or who have gone off their meds. Antipsychotic drugs were developed in the 1950s and used to treat psychosis (in particular, schizophrenia). Typical antipsychotics may also be used for the treatment of acute mania, agitation, and other conditions. America closed mental hospitals in the United States when neuroleptic medications, the patients’ rights movement, and the well-intentioned, but poorly delivered, national transition towards community-based mental health care came together in the 1950’s. Today the state mental hospital reflects a bygone era in American psychiatry. Gone are the days of long-term psychiatric hospitalization and housing for the most severely mentally ill. Instead, for better or for worse, patients in need of psychiatric admission are treated for five or seven days and discharged back to the unsuspecting community— which places the public in great danger.
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