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In 1865 the Legislature authorized the establishment of The Willard Asylum for the Insane. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Opened in 1869, the asylum offered low-cost custodial care. [ 4 ] The Willard drug treatment center was opened in 1995 on the campus of the former Willard Psychiatric State Hospital, a facility for mental patients.
Three more buildings were added by 1877 when Willard, at 475 acres (1500 patients) was the largest asylum in the United States. [3] Produce from the farm and goods manufactured in the various shops allowed the asylum to be, for the most part, self-sufficient. One need was coal for heating during the cold winters.
Known for his "eccentricities", [2] it was reported that he dunked his mentally ill patients in local ponds. [3] It appears that he was one of the earliest physicians to undertake the treatment of behavioral health problems with immersion in cold water. Dr. Willard's father, Nahum, was a Worcester Loyalist at the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
Willard Asylum of the Insane was founded in 1869 in New York and closed in 1995. [19] The institution housed many individuals with mental illnesses, epilepsy, intellectual disabilities, and cognitive delays, often for the rest of the person's life.
Willard was a 900-bed intensive "boot-camp" style drug treatment campus for men and women. This voluntary 97-day treatment program provided a sentencing option for individuals convicted of a drug offense and parole violators who otherwise would have been returned to a state prison, and in most cases, for a year or more.
Phil Lucas, a 32-year-old Suboxone patient, said he tried local NA meetings but no longer attends. “They acted like I was still a heroin addict basically,” he said, adding that people at the meetings kept asking him when he was going to get sober. Diana Sholler, 43, another Suboxone patient in Northern Kentucky, attends local AA meetings.
Before the volunteers started the project, the cemetery has become became overgrown and was mostly forgotten, apart from a misspelled sign that read “Outagamie County Insane Asylum Cemetary 1891 ...
From 1902 to 1904, the ward admitted 331 patients: 24 transferred from other wards, 24 with acute delirium, 20% with melancholy or mania, 20% alcoholics, and others with dementia, uremia, and eclampsia. Recovered patients numbered 110: 96 improved while 25 died.