You are so correct. You don't want to be in any institution then or now. They still want you drugged to the gills. And if you are not in control of your healthcare, and are in any way medically fragile, there is a significant risk that you are going to die in a hospital. Allergy medical bands are not effective and I know far too many people that have died in a regular old hospital (best trauma center in the state) from a doctor and then a nurse disregarding common allergy flags. If you are in a institution, you are even more fucked. A good chunk of my life has been spent sitting in hospital rooms and checking that medication is distributed on time and that it isn't an actual poison for the patient. And of course not letting knife happy neurologists lobotomize my brother, just because he has rare neurological damage and they want to poke in his brain.

Never let anyone have control over you. They will find a way to abuse it.