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Congress passed the National Mental Healthy act in 1946. This created the national institute of mental health in 1949. They researched ways to treat mental health in communities.
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The Food and Drug administration approved Thorazine which is the first antipsychotic drug to treat psychotics episodes and became a staple in asylums. The only treatments available at this time were lobotomies and electroshock therapies.
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a published bestseller by Ken Kesey details a fictional story about mental hospital abuse. By dramatizing a nurse's experience in the psychiatric wing of a California veteran's hospital it turned public opinion against electroshock therapy and lobotomies.
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The signing by president Lyndon B. Johnson created Medicaid to fund health care for low-income families, but not for care in mental hospitals. States incentives became to move patients out of state mental hospitals and into nursing homes and general hospitals to receive federal funding
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This limited a family's right to commit a mentally ill relative and made it more difficult due to due process. The following year the number of mentally ill people in California's criminal justice system doubled. The number of people treated by hospital emergency rooms also doubled.
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650 community health centers had been built, less than half of what was needed, which served 1.9 million patients annually. There design was to help those with less severe disorders, but as hospitals closed they became overwhelmed with patients with serious disorders.
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Purpose was to restructure the community mental-heal-center program and improve services for chronic mental illness. However, it focused on a broad range and in turn shyed away from the aim
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This establishes block grants for the states, ending the federal government's role in providing services to the mental ill. Programs like housing, food banks, and economic development won the federal funds and the federal mental-health spending decreased by 30%
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This the first "atypical" antipsychotic drug to be developed and was used a treatment for schizophrenia symptoms. Approved by the food and drug administration he This strengthened the prejudice against the hospitalization of the mentally ill.
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16% of prison and jail inmates are seriously mentally ill, around 320,000 people. There are more than 3 times as many seriously mentally ill people in jails and prisons than in hospitals.
