So many citizens in prisons, so many mentally ill in prisons--do we administer anti-pyschotics to help them maintain a balanced life, or drug them into compliance? That's the balance California prison medics are working with, and there's no one-answer-fits-all. Sadly. In California, anti-psychotics "account for nearly $1 of every $5 spent on pharmaceuticals purchased for the state prison system, according to figures compiled by The Associated Press." Please note: this story appeared in the Business Section of the Washington Post. California is broke, the prison system is under federal court scrutiny, and the medical unit says its dispensing with all these drugs to avoid law suits
So many citizens in prisons, so many mentally ill in prisons–do we administer anti-pyschotics to help them maintain a balanced life, or drug them into compliance? That’s the balance California prison medics are working with, and there’s no one-answer-fits-all. Sadly. In California, anti-psychotics “account for nearly $1 of every $5 spent on pharmaceuticals purchased for the state prison system, according to figures compiled by The Associated Press.” Please note: this story appeared in the Business Section of the Washington Post. California is broke, the prison system is under federal court scrutiny, and the medical unit says its dispensing with all these drugs to avoid law suits.