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Seven facts about America’s mental health-care system More
Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago by Patrick Van Herpen | permalink
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The United States spends 5.6 percent of its health care budget on mental health treatment, which is on par with other developed nations. More spending goes towards prescription drugs than hospitalizations. And 45 percent of those with unmet needs cite cost as a barrier.
Tags: health care, newton, mental health, insurance, shootings, massacre, obamacare, affordable care act,

For further reading: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/17/seven-facts-about-americas-mental-health-care-system/ ^[1]

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Mental Illness and the Family: Finding the Right Mental Health Care For You More
Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago by Curtis Pack | permalink
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If you or someone you know may benefit from a counselor or mental health center, here are some questions and guidelines to help you find the right care. Where Can I Go For Help? Where you go for help will depend on who has the problem (an adult or child) and the nature of the problem and/or symptoms. Often, the best place to start is your local Mental Health Association. Check your Yellow Pages for a listing or calling Mental Health America. Other suggested resources:

For further reading: http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/finding-right-care ^[2]

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Cost of not caring: Nowhere to go More
Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago by Drive By Upgrades 3 | permalink
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Advocates for the mentally ill say the official mental health system is inaccessible to many patients, who often wind up in a de facto system that includes jails, homeless shelters and emergency rooms.

For further reading: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/05/12/mental-health-system-crisis/7746535/ ^[3]

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America's mental health care crisis: families left to fill the void of a broken system More
Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago by John Hwang | permalink
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The first instalment in a series on the state of mental health care in the US finds a system grossly insufficient to handle demand, leaving many patients, and their caregivers, to fend for themselves
Tags: Mental health,Health,Society,World news

For further reading: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/27/-sp-americas-mental-health-care-system-crisis ^[4]

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America’s Failing Mental Health System: Families Struggle to Find Quality Care | TIME.com More
Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago by Yaguinho Cesar | permalink
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Parents of severely mentally ill children face a disjointed and incomplete system of care
Tags: mental health, children's mental illness, developmental disabilities, mental health system, serious mental illness, treatment for mental illness

For further reading: http://healthland.time.com/2012/12/20/americas-failing-mental-health-system-families-struggle-to-find-quality-care/ ^[5]

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Why can't America care for the mentally ill? | Fox News More
Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago by Kurt Niska | permalink
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What has happened to render such a great nation so incapable or unwilling -- or both -- of caring for the mentally ill?

For further reading: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/12/17/why-cant-america-care-for-mentally-ill.html ^[6]

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Mental illness is no crime - CNN.com More
Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago by Coctailrob | permalink
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We can do better for people with mental illness than just locking them up in jail and prison, say Newt Gingrich and Van Jones.
Tags: opinions, Mental illness is no crime - CNN.com

For further reading: http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/27/opinions/gingrich-jones-mental-health/ ^[7]

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1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/17/seven-facts-about-americas-mental-health-care-system/

2. http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/finding-right-care

3. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/05/12/mental-health-system-crisis/7746535/

4. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/27/-sp-americas-mental-health-care-system-crisis

5. http://healthland.time.com/2012/12/20/americas-failing-mental-health-system-families-struggle-to-find-quality-care/

6. http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/12/17/why-cant-america-care-for-mentally-ill.html

7. http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/27/opinions/gingrich-jones-mental-health/