More and more damning indictment of the public health system in the US keeps tumbling out every other day. In the latest, it has been stated that adults with serious mental illness and treated in public systems die about 25 years earlier than Americans overall.
The gap has widened since the early '90s when major mental disorders cut life spans by 10 to 15 years.
"We're going in the wrong direction and have to change course," says Joseph Parks, director of psychiatric services for the Missouri Department of Mental Health....
More and more damning indictment of the public health system in the US keeps tumbling out every other day. In the latest, it has been stated that adults with serious mental illness and treated in public systems die about 25 years earlier than Americans overall.
The gap has widened since the early '90s when major mental disorders cut life spans by 10 to 15 years.
"We're going in the wrong direction and have to change course," says Joseph Parks, director of psychiatric services for the Missouri Department of Mental Health....