States Ponder Mental Health Cuts

U.S. states continue to look for ways to cut budgets in lean times. Mental health care is not immune to such cuts. State-funded mental health treatment occurs less frequently in state hospitals than in the past, and much of it is actuallly taking prisons.

For information from different states:

Florida: Don't cut funding for mental-health treatment

North Carolina: Mental health care reform is spiraling out of control

Mississippi: Proposed Solution for Mental Health Hospitals is Expensive