California state mental hospitals plagued by peril

Sunday, April 15, 2012 - 02:30 in Health & Medicine

A costly federal effort to reduce heavy drugging and improper restraining fails to improve care and help patients control violent impulses. Instead, assaults by patients soar and confinements grow longer.When Garth Webb was sent to Napa State Hospital, his parents were relieved.

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