Posted on 11/19/2013 11:36:25 AM PST by sunmars
Just a little taste of what the future will be if we don’t dump Obamacare.
You are correct to withhold judgment at this point. Some states, like Fla and the Baker Act, provide for State assistance PROVIDED the subject presents a foreseeable risk by enunciating their ideation that fits the criteria. Absent that, a person suffering a psychotic episode, perhaps a paranoid that does not want confinement, may easily slip through by mouthing the right words.
"inebriate homes" became a place where people who were found by a court to be incapable of managing their own affairs were committed for treatment, such as it was back then. As we became more "modern," some people could not get their freedom and others were "treated" with lobotomies and other forms of treatment that were nothing less than torture. So went the benefits therapeutic temperance for the treatment of transient mental illness.
Looks like an interesting read.
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