Andrew Azevedo’s doctor at Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care attributes his improvement to a change in medication — not the public attention.
This story is part of 20 Years in Isolation, the Star’s ongoing investigation into the use of psychiatric seclusion at Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care. The Star’s initial four-part series on the hospital’s practices has been met with calls for an independent review of Ontario’s mental health system.
For nearly five years, Andrew Azevedo has spent every day living in isolation at Ontario’s only maximum-security psychiatric hospital.
Waypoint Centre for Mental Health is violating its own policy to use psychiatric seclusion only as an option of last resort, new…
Psychiatrist Dr. John Bradford warned the province in 2018 about “horrific conditions" at Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care.
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