How a Leading Chain of Psychiatric Hospitals Traps Patients | Acadia Healthcare is holding people against their will to maximize insurance payouts, a Times investigation found.

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• Carrolade@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Acadia Healthcare is one of America’s largest chains of psychiatric hospitals. Since the pandemic exacerbated a national mental health crisis, the company’s revenue has soared. Its stock price has more than doubled.

  I think I found the problem.

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  • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yep. This kind of behavior is an inherent consequence of for-profit institutions.

    The not-for-profit ones aren’t much better in that regard; a lot of them are run as de-facto profit centers for religious denominations.

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• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Asylums of old never went away, they just morphed a little bit.

  Once you get the label “mentally ill” you’re pretty much completely discarded by society. These people have few to no advocates, so I expect little to change.

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• 0x0@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just the other day there was a piece on hospice on Last Week Tonight, maybe they oughta cover asylums next.

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