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It probably was listing the drugs they typically prescribed as treatment at the facility and drugs of choice the patient may have come in on. The other line would typically cover medications the patient came in on already like insulin, high blood pressure medication, or other medications they are on. I've seen some of these when I worked in detox as an undergrad doing assessments. We used a similar form for the assessment and would ask what drugs the patient had used in the past and what if any drugs they were on right now. They also used a form like this for incident reporting that would be used by the ME when doing a tox analysis so they knew what was prescribed and what should and shouldn't be in a persons system.

Revolution,
Some see it as prison, others home. The point of the windows being encased like that was to protect the patients from themselves. You have to realize before shatterproof glass and such this was the safest way to protect a person from jumping or breaking the windows and using the glass to injure themselves. There was, on some level, a medical reasoning behind it, even if not all the patients placed in facilities like this needed or deserved the treatment they got. Also treatment has come a long way, but without the poor souls that came first some of the treatments we have now would not exist or be as effective as they are now.

You know, Motts, I know this is an old gallary,.. but I was SO extremely interested into this hospital/ruins phase.. my grandma worked at the psych hospital in utica, ny.. the old main one that i ventured into so many times.. i remember hanging out and going on outtings with her patients.. shes no longer alive and a lot of her old residents/patients arent either.. now IM a nurse, and I've been ill enough to require psychiatric hospitalization .. and I've worked with some of HER old patients.. and It's just so numbing and eye opening to think I was so 100% skewed in my beliefs one way and now I totally think so much in the other direction and part of it was spawned by your photographs.
I think you're cool enough to understand what I mean but it's really surprising what most of your viewers have to say!! God damn. P.S. I push every single drugs ever listed on this site plus some. It isn't barbaric or inhuman... you try getting attacked by someone psychotic or mentally imbalanced. better to give an IM injection than to have the potential well being of staff and other residents at risk.

:) reminds me of Coney Island :)

Actually, this used to be Asterix, I´ve seen pictures from this figure still having a head :)

Oh yes, Barbara... I can imagine :)

Whatever happened to this proposal?

http://www.nytimes.com...entury-landmark.html

I sure as s--- would've bought that place for $100 in 1993 - and I was only 8!

Ring up a piano tuner and show him this. And see if hell do it :D

I looked really quick and thought it looked like something from Pink Floyd's "The Wall".

Reminds me of the Cone Heads on SNL.

For a first timer, the sight of the long row of cells would really raise the spincter factor.

Reminds me of my military barracks. Same layout, same lack of privacy.

Your black and white shot increases the feeling of desolation and hopeless the prisoners must have felt.

I really love the shot. Spiral staircases are fantastic!