The background to the Mental Health (Patients in the Community) Act, 1995 is reviewed briefly. Some problems concerning the Act's provisions for‘supervised discharge’ are then discussed. Some more general extrapolations follow concerning the problems of legislating for social and personal‘ills’.
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