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How Reagan’s Decision to Close Mental Institutions …

(7 days ago) WEBRonnie, if you think Reagan the Sociopath closed the abusive California mental health system to ‘treat humans like humans,’ you really haven’t done your homework. In Reply, Ronald Reagan is …

https://obrag.org/2023/04/how-reagans-decision-to-close-mental-institutions-led-to-the-homelessness-crisis/

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Ronald Reagan's shameful legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental …

(1 days ago) WEBRonald Reagan (Reuters/Joe Marquette) Excerpted from "American Psychosis". In November 1980, Republican Ronald Reagan overwhelmingly defeated Jimmy Carter, …

https://www.salon.com/2013/09/29/ronald_reagans_shameful_legacy_violence_the_homeless_mental_illness/

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Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 - Wikipedia

(3 days ago) The Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 (MHSA) was United States legislation signed by President Jimmy Carter which provided grants to community mental health centers. In 1981 President Ronald Reagan, who had made major efforts during his Governorship to reduce funding and enlistment for California mental institutions, pushed a political effort through the Democratically controlled Hou…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Health_Systems_Act_of_1980

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The Truth About Deinstitutionalization - The Atlantic

(3 days ago) WEBUnder the 1963 law, he said, “custodial mental institutions” would be replaced by community mental-health centers, thus allowing …

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/05/truth-about-deinstitutionalization/618986/

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How Reagan’s Mental-Health Concerns Were Handled

(2 days ago) WEBReagan addressed such concerns head-on. He vowed to resign the office if he was ever found mentally unfit by White House …

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/01/how-reagans-mental-health-concerns-were-handled.html

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Opinion: Here's how Reagan created the homelessness crisis - The …

(Just Now) WEBBy contrast, 6 percent of all hospital discharges in California during that time involved a mental health diagnosis. Butler-Cohen said that in 2017, homeless people …

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/commentary/story/2023-04-24/opinion-impact-of-deinstitutionalization-on-homelessness-reagan-mental-health-hospitals-san-diego

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Hard truths about deinstitutionalization, then and now

(6 days ago) WEBRonald Reagan and Jerry Brown, two of the most consequential governors ever in California, led the state during two of the most well intended but poorly executed movements in this state’s …

https://calmatters.org/commentary/2019/03/hard-truths-about-deinstitutionalization-then-and-now/

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Ronald Reagan and the Commitment of the Mentally Ill

(4 days ago) WEBCombined with a sharp rise in homelessness during the 1980s, Ronald Reagan pursued a policy toward the treatment of mental illness that satisfied special interest groups and …

https://sociology.org/content/vol003.004/thomas_d.html

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Ronald Reagan's Legacy: Homelessness in America Shelterforce

(5 days ago) WEBAnother of Reagan’s enduring legacies is the steep increase in the number of homeless people, which by the late 1980s had swollen to 600,000 on any given night – …

https://shelterforce.org/2004/05/01/reagans-legacy-homelessness-in-america/

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Did the Emptying of Mental Hospitals Contribute to …

(3 days ago) WEBThe community mental health centers never receive stable funding, and even 15 years later less than half the promised centers are built. 1967 Ronald Reagan is elected governor of California. At this …

https://www.kqed.org/news/11209729/did-the-emptying-of-mental-hospitals-contribute-to-homelessness-here

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HOW RELEASE OF MENTAL PATIENTS BEGAN - The …

(4 days ago) WEBIn California, for example, the number of patients in state mental hospitals reached a peak of 37,500 in 1959 when Edmund G. Brown was Governor, fell to 22,000 when Ronald Reagan attained that

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-mental-patients-began.html

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Creating a Science of Homelessness During the Reagan Era

(3 days ago) WEBContext. A decade after the nation's Skid Rows were razed, homelessness reemerged in the early 1980s as a health policy issue in the United States. While activists advocated …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4364434/

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The Shadow of Ronald Reagan Is Costing Us Dearly

(9 days ago) WEBThe myths of American individualism planted and nurtured under Mr. Reagan continue to cost us dearly as a nation. “In this present crisis, government is not …

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/11/opinion/reagan-social-welfare.html

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America's Long-Suffering Mental Health System Origins

(3 days ago) WEBThe bill called for 2,000 CMHCs to be built by 1980, with the goal of rendering most state hospitals obsolete. Signing the Community Mental Health Act was one of Kennedy’s …

https://origins.osu.edu/article/americas-long-suffering-mental-health-system?language_content_entity=en

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The Observer: Who closed mental health hospitals in California

(7 days ago) WEBThere is a longstanding belief that when Ronald Ragan was governor in the 1960s, he “closed down” the state’s mental hospitals, thus leading to today’s epic mental health …

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/the-observer-who-closed-mental-health-hospitals-in-california-three-guesses-it-wasnt-reagan/ar-AA1fv2FI

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The Facts: President Reagan's Mental Health and Stability While in

(7 days ago) WEBThe Facts: President Reagan's Mental Health and Stability While in Office Never in Question Only a few days into the New Year, we have already learned much: Donald …

https://www.reaganfoundation.org/about-us/press-releases/the-facts-president-reagans-mental-health-and-stability-while-in-office-never-in-question/

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Ronald Reagan Mental Health Policy In California LAist

(Just Now) WEBLarry Mantle looks at Ronald Reagan's policy on mental health in California and how it has affected the current state services for the mentally ill in this State. Larry …

https://laist.com/shows/airtalk/ronald-reagan-mental-health-policy-in-california

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Ronald Reagan's presidency was uniquely destructive - Los …

(1 days ago) WEBReagan’s wars against the poor in Central America are well documented to have been atrocities, and they created the refugee crisis that persists today. The “build …

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-07-05/ronald-reagans-presidency-was-one-of-the-most-destructive-in-u-s-history

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Ronald Reagan's lasting healthcare legacy: How '80s deficit …

(8 days ago) WEBHealth care became a prominent issue in the 1992 elections, and when Bill Clinton defeated George H. W. Bush, giving Democrats their first victory in a presidential …

https://www.salon.com/2015/07/26/ronald_reagans_lasting_healthcare_legacy_how_80s_deficit_spending_and_conservative_ideologies_reshaped_the_healthcare_debate/

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The Trouble with the Insanity Defense: DJ Jaffe Oped in Wall St

(8 days ago) WEBTwenty six- year-old Colorado resident John Hinckley was found NGBRI in Washington after he shot Ronald Reagan in a schizophrenia-fueled attempt to secure a date with …

https://mentalillnesspolicy.org/ngri/not-guilty-reason-insanity.html

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Opinion The Cost of Complacency About Roe - The New York …

(7 days ago) WEBThe Cost of Complacency About Roe. Democrats and abortion-rights advocates didn’t push hard enough for women’s rights in New York. Now, they have a …

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/28/opinion/roe-wade-new-york.html

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Feds accuse Rhode Island of warehousing kids with mental health

(1 days ago) WEBBOSTON -- Rhode Island violated the civil rights of hundreds of children with mental health or developmental disabilities by routinely and unnecessarily …

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/feds-accuse-rhode-island-warehousing-kids-mental-health-110189924

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Addiction is an illness, and not a moral failure - SowetanLIVE

(5 days ago) WEBI argue that alcoholism is an addiction and therefore fundamentally a medical and mental health problem. (a slogan that was used by the Ronald Reagan …

https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2024-05-22-malaika-mahlatsi-addiction-is-an-illness-and-not-a-moral-failure/

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He’d Waited Decades to Argue His Innocence. - ProPublica

(7 days ago) WEBProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published.. The judge’s notice of …

https://features.propublica.org/judge_alzheimers/brooklyn-federal-judge-mental-illness/

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Congress is angry over flights at a Washington, DC, airport

(8 days ago) WEBSpecifically, a group of politicians are feuding over the recent allowance of additional long-distance flights at Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington …

https://theweek.com/politics/congress-flights-airport-ronald-reagan-washington

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