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Article: The devil in deinstitutionalizing.(mentally ill are not well-served by current system)
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- Insight on the News
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- September 14, 1998
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The 30-year movement to free the mentally Ill from `snakepit' institutions may have prove A failure. But the best policy for helping Psychiatric patients has yet to be found.
Russell Weston Jr.'s July 24 invasion of the U.S. Capitol building, which left two police officers dead and a tourist wounded, brought to a violent climax a private war the gunman was waging with a government he suspected was out to get him. But yet another war long had been raging within Weston himself, with reason gradually surrendering to schizophrenia.
Weston was investigated by the Secret Service in 1996 for threatening the president, and later that year spent time in a Montana ...