Katya Cengel learned the history of a trusted hot line reveals the mental health situation in Latvia is just as scrambled as the patients.Almost all despotic governments have used mental health to their own ends. The Soviets were no exception. "Prejudice towards mental patients exists all over the world," said Oskars Velmers, director of the Health Affairs Department at Latvia's Welfare Ministry. "The only difference is change in treatment took place earlier in the West."Nearly a decade after its demise, however, the Soviet way of thinking still has a grip on the public and government attit...
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