What was the primary reason that communities stopped putting psychiatric patients into large, isolated state psychiatric hospitals for the rest of their lives?
A. Phenothiazine drugs such as chlorpromazine were discovered.
B. Families became a political action group and demanded changes in the law.
C. Fire broke out, killing thousands of patients, so smaller, more manageable units were built.
ANS: A
D.
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a. secondary care b. primary care c. tertiary care
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