How to Bring Sanity to Our Mental Health System

With America’s prisons crowded with mentally ill inmates, Medicaid costs for the mentally ill soaring, and homeless Americans with schizophrenia on our streets, it is clear that our mental health system is dysfunctional. The Center for Policy Innovation invited Dr. E. Fuller Torrey to offer his solutions to this crisis. Dr. Torrey is a leading psychiatrist and researcher and has written widely on the problems associated with U.S. mental health policy.

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