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  • DEARSIRS The Mental Deficiency Act of 1913empowered town councils to provide residential services for people called mentally handicapped or with severe learning difficulty

  • (2) The title written on the prescription of psychotropic drugs has increased the stigma among patients, families and society

  • (3) It generated among the media a false idea of correlation between narcotics and psychotropic drugs

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DEARSIRS The Mental Deficiency Act of 1913empowered town councils to provide residential services for people called mentally handicapped or with severe learning difficulty. Had the run-down continued at the same rate as during the '70s, it would have been the year 2040 before the hospitals were empty. In lecturing on the evolution of services I am struck by the guarded response from many young students and trainees, as well as older professionals and parents and relatives of patients, who might be naturally reactionary, to the Gadarene swine-like rush to close down mental hospitals, even though the Department of Health repeatedly claims that closure is not a primary aim. In a generation or two will a revolutionary idea emerge, i.e. to create a residential centre where people with severe learning difficulty would live in an en vironment adapted to meet their needs and abilities?

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