|Slideshows|May 25, 2017

4 Myths About Assisted Outpatient Treatment

Author(s)E. Fuller Torrey, MD, John D. Snook, JD

After lounging on the doorstep of respectability for the past decade, assisted outpatient treatment is here to stay. But some still balk at the notion.

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