In response to the strict involuntary mental health care laws of the 1970s and 1980s in the USA, some states enacted legal reforms that
A) shortened hospital stays.
B) reduced the number of admissions.
C) changed the status under which patients were committed.
D) eliminated the doctrine of parens patriae.
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