Drugs, deinstitutionalization, and the community mental health movement are all related. Describe this relationship and how it evolved
What will be an ideal response?
* The use of psychotropic drugs decreased the need for long-term inpatient care and allowed deinstitutionalization and the community mental health movement to obtain their goals of getting patients out of the institutions and back into the community.
* The community health movement provided government sponsorship and funding to increase outpatient treatment.
* All these efforts worked together to provide the least restrictive placement for those with mental illness.
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a. true b. false
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A) want to leave home permanently. B) intend to return home. C) have drug problems. D) believe street life is glamorous.
Which of the following is NOT one of the six reasons identified for adolescents' running away?
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