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Private member’s bill wrong [shifting responsibility for children’s mental health]

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

Oct 10 2010
Once again, children with developmental disabilities and autism, thought to have mental health challenges, could end up under the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, placing them at risk of confinement in psychiatric facilities and nursing homes with the subsequent medicalization of their conditions and possible overmedication, use of aversives, etc… Let’s not forget the harmful “hospital schools” and “asylums” where children were placed under the Health ministry.

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