Charged with using psychotropic drugs to achieve the goals of Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, three former top managers of a Kern County, Calif., were arrested. The Los Angeles Times reported:
"The state attorney general's office contended in a criminal complaint that more than 20 residents at a skilled nursing center run by the Kern Valley Healthcare District were drugged 'for staff convenience.' Many of them experienced side effects that included dramatic weight loss, slurred speech, tremors, loss of cognition and even psychosis, according to the complaint."
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"These people maliciously violated the trust of their patients by holding them down and forcibly administering psychotropic medications if they dared to question their care," state Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown said.
"Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me."
You can read the entire complaint from California Attorney General Jerry Brown's office here.
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