Nearly 50 Percent Of Mental Health Services Recipients In Giffords' County Were Dropped In 2010

[kpete]

Source: Huffington Post

Nearly 50 Percent Of Mental Health Services Recipients In Giffords' County Were Dropped In 2010

WASHINGTON -- In the past year, Pima County, Ariz., where Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others were shot Saturday, has seen more than 45 percent of its mental health services recipients forced off the public rolls, a service advocate told The Huffington Post.

The deep cuts in treatment were protested strongly at the time, with opponents warning that they would result in a spike in suicide attempts, public disturbances, hospitalizations and brushes with the police. But according to Clarke Romans, executive director for southern Arizona's branch of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the state government ignored requests for relief, citing the need to implement strict budget controls.

Now, in the wake of this weekend's horrific shootings, reports on the seemingly crazed mental state of the alleged shooter -- who was not, apparently, enrolled in any public treatment program -- is leading politicians, reporters and activists to take a fresh look at the funding of mental health care.

Arizona didn't always lag in this department. As Jonathan Cohn of The New Republic noted, "a 2009 survey by the National Association for the Mentally Ill reported that, statewide, mental health services had actually improved over the previous three years, to the point where the organization bumped Arizona's grade from a "D+" to a "C.""

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/11/pima-county-mental-health-services_n_807522.html

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

1. SO? What EVIDENCE do you have THIS relates to LOUGHNER at all?

Hmmm?

If you can't pinpoint it precisely, you NEED to remove this post immediately!

CONJECTURING or QUESTIONING is FUTILE!

(sarcasm here of course).

[cliffordu]

7. Ya had me going -

I had my blow torch and pliers all warmed up.....

:hi:

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

11. LOL! I had a very very very trying discussion with someone

.. who wanted direct evidence of Saturday's shooter to either Palin or even the RW.

I asked them why were they hear asking for direct evidence of 'opinions' and not on Limbaugh / Palin / Beck sites when they postulate out the kazoo without a shred of thought or rethought.

Just kept asking 'where's the evidance'.

I left .. but was irritated beyond belief and then saw THIS post.
I (shamedly) now had to say it. UGH!

Better now tho!

<smile>

[annm4peace]

14. good lord you had me going too.

It is painful to see the latest photo of Jared. He has the crazy eyes. I have seen that look in many people on the locked unit at a psych hospital.. He is very sick.

It is shameful of our society. why don't people realize it is cheaper to provide mental health then to let me become sicker and sicker and sicker.

[Solly Mack]

2. k/r

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Nearly 50% of the money reserved for levee repair around NO was unreserved

by GWB and we all know how that turned out. Kicked and recommended.

[fascisthunter]

4. Money for Mental Health should never be cut

[kestrel91316]

5. Mental health is a waste of taxpayer dollars. We all know that mental illness is

caused by demonic possession, and THAT is caused by a failure to accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior and follow the words of the bible literally. Crazy people don't need doctors, they just need to git right with GAWD and stop following Satan.

:sarcasm:

[benld74]

6. This is the other shoe dropping! Who was Gov when it happened?

[EC]

8. likely the same one that cut the

transplants...ms. brewer...

[Canuckistanian]

9. So even if Loughner were diagnosed, he might not even have been treated

Good to know.

[IamK]

10. or he might have been treated, he also had this going for him...

http://l.yimg.com/ho/api/res/1.2/mSFIsU5UDD8DCrcen9lhDQ--/Zmk9Zml0O2g9MjAwO3c9MzIwO2FwcGlkPXluZXdzcmNo/

[RainDog]

12. that picture gives me the creeps. it also looks too much like Glenn Beck n/t

[glinda]

13. This might be the future plan for what Republican HC would look like. And worse.