An LA Times Opinion piece by Marcia Meier.
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...They kept him three weeks, diagnosed him with schizophrenia and put him on medication. Then they released him, with medicine to take and an appointment to see a county psychiatrist. He finished the pills they sent him home with, but he refused to see the doctor and never returned to the county mental health department.
That was more than 20 years ago. My brother remains resistant to treatment, fearful, broke. But he's luckier than many with this devastating illness. Many people with schizophrenia live on the streets; he lives in a mobile home my mother bought for him after my dad died...
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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-meier28-2010feb28,0,7835691.story
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