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In reply to the discussion: The Reagan deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill and the incredible increase of crime in the US [View all]Mondavi
(176 posts)and who have pretty much lost the planet for us.
And, if any of the mentally ill who are untreated are "dangerous" as you suggest, readers should know that they are mainly dangerous to themselves, not others.
When decades ago, patients were released from vile institutions where they were often abused and mistreated and tortured with insane treatments, there was to be a support system which never happened. And, this didn't begin under Reagan. It began quite some time before as the chemical imbalances became clear and as drugs were developed which began to work. Certainly, this was happening during the Carter administration. The very question of "chemical imbalances" in the brain and why this is happening receives no more attention than the pollution of our planet as a cause of cancer. The brain is the most vulnerable organ of the body and we can likely see over a thousand years and more that use of various metals and other substances may be possible causes of these effects on the brain.
It is naive not to understand the role that profits play in our wars, with corporations manufacturing weapons, or in the healthcare system. Profits are dangerous to the health and well-being of everyone on the planet.