Mental Health

For the Mentally Ill, Finding Treatment Grow Harder

New health care law may add to crunch for enough treatment

By Gary Fields and Jennifer Corbett Dooren, WSJ, 1/16/14

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Lives of Mentally Ill, Police Collide

Law enforcement professionals and mental health advocates believe they are seeing an increase in fatal encounters between police and the mentally ill

By Gary Fields, WSJ, 10/23/13

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The New Asylums: Jails Swell With Mentally Illl

America’s jails face growing need to provide mental health treatment

By Gary Fields & Erica E. Phillips, WSJ, 9/25/3013

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Families of Violent Patients: “We’re Locked Out” of Care

Gary Fields, WSJ, 6/7/2013

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Killer Says Family Tried to Help, “But I Wouldn’t Let Them”

Gary Fields, WSJ, 6/7/2013

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