Crisis care for the mentally ill crumbles under the weight of not enough money, too much beauracracy
Crisis care for the mentally ill crumbles under the weight of not enough money, too much beauracracy
Crisis care for the mentally ill crumbles under the weight of not enough money, too much beauracracy
Crisis care for the mentally ill crumbles under the weight of not enough money, too much beauracracy
Crisis care for the mentally ill crumbles under the weight of not enough money, too much beauracracy
Crisis care for the mentally ill crumbles under the weight of not enough money, too much beauracracy
Not everyone buys into crisis intervention for the mentally ill
Laura Howard got tossed into a jail treatment program, but it was the wrong one for someone whose mental health was in tatters
Houston is scrambling for psychiatric and emergency medical services. But hoping for better state funding is just another psychotic episode.
Even though Alexander Hatcher is bipolar and schizophrenic, he wasn't given his meds for his first three months in jail. He got in fights with the guards. Now he's sentenced to prison for a long, long time.
West Oaks Story
Years after Sybil, the debate continues
Lu Nan is a camera-wielding humanist
Lu Nan is a camera-wielding humanist
When it comes to housing the mentally disabled, is better-than-nothing good enough?
Lisa Collins took the Paxil her doctor prescribed. There was supposed to be no problem with her continuing it during her pregnancy. Now, it seems, there was.
A group of unsupervised mental patients running from Katrina made it from New Orleans to Houston. Victor Fruge led the way.
Meth users are really proDuctive, sExy, hAppy anD slim
A mother sets out to save her children, by killing them. Texas usually jails such women, but that may be changing.
Parents plead with the state not to shut down the state schools for the mentally retarded. But it looks like a done deal.
Too scared to leave her house, Sandy has one last chance: a county crisis team that will come to her
Films that look at madness in the eyes of the law
Films that look at madness in the eyes of the law
Did the Devereux Treatment Center provide the care Cecilia Garrett needed or did it drive the young teenager to her death?
Drug addicts can get hard cash to be sterilized or go on birth control. Is it ridding the world of unwanted babies -- or just ducking the underlying problems of abusers?
Jurist Rory Olsen can put you in a mental institution and cost you hefty court fees. Critics wonder whether he can handle the job. Big deal -- he's a bottom-of-the-ballot Republican.
Area housing for the mentally ill remains deplorable, but a state subsidy might improve conditions
For many mentally ill teenagers in Texas, the only way to get treatment is to get arrested.
Houston Area Mental Health Advocates
MHMRA restricts Medicaid services at mental health clinic pharmacies
Increasing deficits cause MHMRA to close a new treatment clinic
By keeping a constant eye on its mentally ill clients, an ACT team heads off all sorts of troubles
When the sickest of Harris County's mentally ill break down, an ACT team is there to pick up the pieces and put them back together again
A money-starved mental health treatment unit may die in its infancy
Funding cuts kill work programs as well as treatment services
Can the system keep up with the evolution of mental health?
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.
Despite suicides and inner strife, Asian-Americans resist psychotherapy
Dr. Amos and Cecilia Ozumba ran Houston Maintenance Clinic for four years. Have they finally run it into the ground?
Dr. Amos and Cecilia Ozumba ran Houston Maintenance Clinic for four years. Have they finally run it into the ground?
Texas Lottery. Let's buy our tickets and bet on the day that Robert Arthur Pearson finally kills himself in public while we all watch
Mental health cuts may come back to haunt the public
Mental health cuts may come back to haunt the public
Texas's mentally impaired used to go to treatment centers. Now they go to prison.
Texas's mentally impaired used to go to treatment centers. Now they go to prison.
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Photo by Chris Curry Travis Bonser is one of Houston's 30 craziest people. Travis Bonser learned how to shoot heroin from his mother. It happened when he was 14, after his mom became too fat to tie her own arm or leave the house to pick up the dope from her dealer. It wasn't long before Bonser was ... More >>
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