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Losing a Son to Mental Illness and the Courts

Reporter David Haldane had to make the difficult choice of institutionalizing his son Drew, who suffers from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, after several violent episodes. He tells Madeleine his powerful story of reaching that decision, and how he thinks the mental health system subsequently failed his family and his son.