Deinstitutionalization
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Deinstitutionalization was the mid-twentieth-century movement of psychiatric patients out of large hospitals into community settings.
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Hospital populations fell sharply after the introduction of antipsychotic medication and policy change.
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The community services intended to replace hospitals were largely not funded, which is why homelessness and incarceration rose.
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