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Saturday, May 22, 2010

The national toll of undertreated mental illness

Good, if brief, report from Kristen Gerentscher at MarketWatch.com on the current state of mental illness in America:


One of the keys to successful mental health treatment is a combination of counseling and medication. Unfortunately, many insurance companies aren't too anxious to cover the former. True, it can be abused; and if abused, it becomes very expensive. (But so can medication be abused.) Since successful treatment is the goal, and since the evidence clearly supports the two-pronged approach to treating mental illness, one hopes that the entire health and health insurance communities will work together to make this a reality for all mental health patients.

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