The Great Read: Under a L.A. Freeway, a Psychiatric Rescue Mission
The crisis of homelessness is pushing American psychiatry to places it has not gone before — like sidewalk injections of antipsychotics.
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October 20, 2024, 10:01 a.m. Eastern time

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Under a L.A. Freeway, a Psychiatric Rescue Mission

The crisis of homelessness is pushing American psychiatry to places it has not gone before — like sidewalk injections of antipsychotics.

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