WHAT HAPPENS TO RETURNED TRANQUILIZING DRUG PATIENTS ? AN ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE DISCHARGES
Abstract
A note of optimism is indicated regarding the future of hospital-returned tranquilizing drug patients. At the close of 4 years of an extended chlorpromazine study on once extremely disturbed mental patients, 24 of 101 returned patients were once more outside the institution. Some of these had been discharged and returned two or three times. These 24 amount to 23.7% of the total returnees. Returned tranquilizing drug patients must, therefore, not become "forgotten people," but deserve further interest and consideration.
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