Gloria Duffy: Giving Asylum to the Chronically Mentally Ill?
The illogical expectation that the chronically mentally ill will take care of themselves creates much more cost for our public safety, law enforcement, the medical system, the environment where homeless encampments take over parks and streamsheds and for other social services than it would cost to provide them with appropriate institutional care. Read more: Commonwealth Club, Mental Illness, Mental Health, Deinstitutionalization, Health Care, Politics News
The illogical expectation that the chronically mentally ill will take care of themselves creates much more cost for our public safety, law enforcement, the medical system, the environment where homeless encampments take over parks and streamsheds and for other social services than it would cost to provide them with appropriate institutional care.
Read more: Commonwealth Club, Mental Illness, Mental Health, Deinstitutionalization, Health Care, Politics News
SOURCE: Mental Health on Huffington Post – Read entire story here.