The Legal System is Making My Son Take Anti-Psychotic Medication
<p>Our healthcare system is broken. A walk around San Francisco makes that clear. People in psychosis are everywhere — on the bus, on the street corners, huddled up under filthy blankets sleeping in doorways, their dirty, scab-covered feet poking out at passersby.</p>
<p>I don’t usually interact with these people. I fear them. They’re unpredictable, and I don’t want to draw their attention. But if a gentle one who doesn’t smell bad sits near me on the bus, I’ll talk to him. And when I’m driving by a certain street corner, where one or another often stands with a sign, I’ll stick my arm out the window and hand them two dollars as I whoosh by.</p>
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