Betsy Schwartz

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December 24, 2009
Holiday Madness
Looking for quick help, some patients instead found themselves locked in a county mental health unit and not going anywhere.
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December 11, 2008
Is Harris County Jail the Place for A Mentally Troubled Teen?
Laura Howard got tossed into a jail treatment program, but it was the wrong one for someone whose mental health was in tatters
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November 18, 2004
Beggars Can't Be Choosers
Parents plead with the state not to shut down the state schools for the mentally retarded. But it looks like a done deal.
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July 25, 2002
Reality Check
Houston is scrambling for psychiatric and emergency medical services. But hoping for better state funding is just another psychotic episode.
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February 1, 2001
Upstairs Down - and Out?
A money-starved mental health treatment unit may die in its infancy
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November 9, 2000
Catch Us If You Can
Steve Chesser went to MHMRA for help. Sent home from its emergency clinic without medicine or therapy, he shot his and killed himself. Diagnosis: A mental health care system in free fall.
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July 22, 1999
Downing
Quiet Rage: Insurers and the state have given up, but parents are battling to get help for their severely troubled boy