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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually JFK was responsible for the mentally ill being released from hospitals into the streets. It was one of the last bills he signed:

https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.pn.2019.3b29[/quote]

“Perhaps the most dramatic shift in the use of psychiatric hospitals, and the most misunderstood, is “deinstitutionalization.” First, deinstitutionalization was not a thought-out policy shift, not a movement, and not even labeled until considerably after the relocation of psychiatric patients from hospitals to settings outside of hospitals had begun. The depopulation of America’s public hospitals occurred due to a confluence of factors including exposés and reports by conscientious objectors working in these hospitals in lieu of combat in World War II, the introduction of chlorpromazine (1954), a new breed of activist attor neys, and the naissance of the disability rights movement.
On October 31, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed what would turn out to be his last major bill, the Community Mental Health Centers Act. While Kennedy was extolled for this legislation, the bill turned out to be not much more than a hiccup, and Kennedy actually had little interest in it.”[/quote]

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