If you take anti-depressants ... you get thrown out of Panama City Rescue mission. [View all]

Well at least that's the way the zero-tolerance policy for "mind-altering drugs" works in a homeless mission in Panama City FL.

Unemployment decimates the mentally ill, with the best unemployed rates well about 50%. Surviving is a struggle, half the homeless have problems with mental illness. Getting treatment ought to be a basic step in recovery...

Well until it runs into a fundamentalist's strict construction of shelter policies on drug use.

Supposedly this is reasonable because it's in "the interest of safety" that psychiatric medications aren't allowed.

A rational anti-drug policy, or discrimination built on prejudiced beliefs about the dangerousness of the mentally ill?

I just find this crap on the internet and it's way to easy to do it. You can read it and decide for yourself.

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