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Design by Travers Collins & Company for the Mental Health Association of Erie County, New York
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The government can exert parens patriae to protect people from hurting themselves.
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Larry Hogue was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital because, homeless and under the influence of drugs (left), he terrorized residents of a New York City neighborhood for years. Once off drugs (right) Hogue was able to control himself.
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People become homeless because of many factors, incuding economic conditions, mental health status, and drug use.
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A significant number of homeless people are individuals with mental disorders, many of whom live with their children in shelters or on the streets.
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Theodore Kaczynski, once a promising mathematician (left), became a notorious terrorist who killed 3 people and injured 23 more with handmade bombs sent through the mail. Awaiting trial as the Unabomber (right), Kaczynski refused to cooperate with his lawyers, who fought to have him declared mentally ill to save his life. Ironically, the prosecution, in pressing for the death penalty, supported his claim of sanity. (In the end, Kaczynski pleaded guilty and accepted a life sentence.)
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Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, a psychologist at the University of California in Irvine and an expert in human memory, testifies as an expert witness during the capital murder trial of former National Football League player Rae Carruth.
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Greg Aller (right, with his parents) participated in a drug study at UCLA and suffered a severe relapse of psychotic symptoms when medication was withdrawn. He and his family subsequently raised the issue of informed consent for such research.
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