When Oregon Sent its Most Troubled Patients Into the Woods

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From TIME: In 1972, 51 of the most troubled mental health patients at Oregon State Hospital were sent into the woods for a camping trip. The trip was greatly helpful to the patients; 14 of the patients who participated in the trip were eventually released from the hospital.

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