China passes law to curb abuse of mental hospitals

Friday, October 26, 2012 - 03:00 in Psychology & Sociology

BEIJING (AP) -- China's legislature on Friday passed a long-awaited mental health law that aims to prevent people from being involuntarily held and unnecessarily treated in psychiatric facilities - abuses that have been used against government critics and triggered public outrage....

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