Monday, August 18, 2008

After a Murder, Looking at Hospitalization and Release of the Mentally Ill

Two years ago, a 24-year-old schizophrenic man killed his mother with a hatchet a few months after being released from a psychiatric center over the objections of his doctors. This weekend’s WSJ tells the story, and uses it as a lens to examine the system in which government-funded mental health advocates sometimes wind up arguing [...]

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