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 quotes Michael Rembis in an article about Robert Kennedy’s comments saying that Americans “addicted” to opioids, antidepressants, and stimulants should be sent to “wellness farms” to be “re-parented.” Rembis wrote in The Oxford Handbook of Disability History that the physicians, social workers, and state officials who ran colonies and other institutions for disabled individuals in the 19^th and 20^th centuries were “driven by an ableist logic that was always infused with racialist, gendered, and class-based thinking” in their attempts at “segregating, sterilizing, and generally restricting the world’s disabled population.”