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South Australian children experiencing mental crises are being tied down under nets, locked up in seclusion at extreme rates and forcibly injected with sedating drugs, prompting warnings youngsters are suffering lasting harm from coercive health-system practices.
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An SA Health manager has congratulated colleagues on failing to fill vacant positions in a southern area mental health service which has been described as being in crisis due to staff shortages.
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South Australia’s adult community mental health services are “extremely dysfunctional”, to the point of being “unsafe” for patients and staff, SA Health clinicians have told a formal review.