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Acadia Healthcare is one of America’s largest chains of psychiatric hospitals. Since the pandemic exacerbated a national mental health crisis, the company’s revenue has soared. Its stock price has more than doubled.
I think I found the problem.
Yep. This kind of behavior is an inherent consequence of for-profit institutions.
The not-for-profit ones aren’t much better in that regard; a lot of them are run as de-facto profit centers for religious denominations.
The Asylums of old never went away, they just morphed a little bit.
Once you get the label “mentally ill” you’re pretty much completely discarded by society. These people have few to no advocates, so I expect little to change.