Homeless Mentally Ill: Some History (tags)
Better medicines were invented in the 1950's, 1960,s and 1970's and the population of state mental hospitals decreased from 550,000 to 110,000 from the 1950's to 1980's.
Key Declaration about Mental Illness and Homelessness in U.S.A. by E. Fuller Torrey (tags)
Author of the Tragic Odyssey of the Homeless Mentally Ill a Text by Harper and Row. Until the laye 1950's most seriously mentally ill lived in state hospitals It became feasible to discharge 100,000's of thousands when medications improved. by 1985 the population had decreased by 80%