Alan Graham
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And so we, the people of the state of Texas and the state of everywhere, knew that we had to have a place for our neighborsβ
that lived in our communities that had profound mental health issues.
The problem is that we did a lot of human experimentation during that period of time.
By the time the 50s and 60s came around, we had invented these unbelievable drugs
Haldol, Thorazine, all these drugs that we could give people.
Electric shock therapy, which had been around for many decades prior to that.
The whole deal about Kennedy had to do with his sister having a lobotomy.
And that there's got to be a better way that we can bring people back into the community as opposed to being in these institutions.
And so I ask you and all of our listeners here, how many people do you know that are battling depression, bipolar disorder?
And they don't need to be institutionalized, but there are a few people in this world that need a different level of care than we're currently giving them.
We have half a dozen of them that live in the village that we can't manage.
And we need a different level of care.
By the time Ronald Reagan came around, we were completing what was really an honorable experiment that has gone partially awry.
Yeah, there's replicators going on around the country.
We call them replicators.