Young people with severe autism languish in U.S. hospitals
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Teenagers and young adults with severe autism are spending weeks or even months in emergency rooms and acute-care hospitals in the United States, sometimes sedated, restrained or confined to mesh-tented beds, a Kaiser Health News investigation shows. These young people — who may shout for hours, bang their heads on walls or lash out violently at […]