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Black and white image of an eyeball open wide and the words "when the patient lashes out against 'them,' Thorazine quickly puts an end to his violent outburst."
Thorazine advertisment, 1962.

Access to mental health drug therapies leads to the end of extreme rates of institutionalization.

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Thorazine advertisment, 1962.

New antipsychotic drugs, like Thorazine, and the increased use of drug therapies to "manage" mental health challenges leads to a movement towards deinstitutionalization. This occurs in two parts: releasing people imprisoned within institutions, and then closing those institutions soon after.