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Access to mental health drug therapies leads to the end of extreme rates of institutionalization.

Date: 1955

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New antipsychotic drugs, like Thorazine, and the increased use of drug therapies to "manage" mental health challenges leads to a movement towards deinstitutionalization. This occurs in two parts: releasing people imprisoned within institutions, and then closing those institutions soon after.