New Year’s tragedy exposes big gap in mental health care
Posted on AllSides January 10th, 2020
From The Left
OPINION
The silence surrounding the unspeakable horror in a quiet stretch of South Shore Drive speaks volumes about the city’s tattered safety net.
I know this net is sturdy enough for the folks who have access to minute clinics.
But how do we put our faith in a system that sends a 20-year-old suicidal mother of two home (after an apparent mental breakdown) with a “diagnosis of a mood disorder and a prescription.”
You don’t have to be a psychiatrist or preacher to know that isn’t right. How could a person...
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