It’s time to admit defeat. Deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill was a failed experiment in the United States, and for the safety of the majority of Americans and the recovery of the mentally ill, we need to bring back long-term psychiatric care facilities.
Ten years ago Dominic A. Sisti, PhD, Andrea G. Segal, MS, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD, outlined the problem in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
“During the past half century, the supply of inpatient psychiatric beds in the United States has largely vanished,” they explained.
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