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Free Housing For Mentally Ill Inmates Proposed

Nowhere to Land

Crisis care for the mentally ill crumbles under the weight of not enough money, too much beauracracy

Psychotic Reaction

Crisis care for the mentally ill crumbles under the weight of not enough money, too much beauracracy

Diagnosis

Crisis care for the mentally ill crumbles under the weight of not enough money, too much beauracracy

Ritalin on Trial

Crisis care for the mentally ill crumbles under the weight of not enough money, too much beauracracy

Press Picks

Crisis care for the mentally ill crumbles under the weight of not enough money, too much beauracracy

Heal Thyself

Crisis care for the mentally ill crumbles under the weight of not enough money, too much beauracracy

Is Harris County Jail the Place for A Mentally Troubled Teen?: Mind-sets

Not everyone buys into crisis intervention for the mentally ill

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

Reality Check

Houston is scrambling for psychiatric and emergency medical services. But hoping for better state funding is just another psychotic episode.

Gone to Hell: Mental Illness and Harris County Jail

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.

Mental Anguish for West Oaks Hospital

West Oaks Story

Do You Have Multiple Personality Disorder?

Years after Sybil, the debate continues

FotoFest: "Independent Documentary Photography 1985-2008"

Lu Nan is a camera-wielding humanist

Paul Miles, Iraq and PTSD

Lu Nan is a camera-wielding humanist

Board and Care(less)

When it comes to housing the mentally disabled, is better-than-nothing good enough?

Baby Blues

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.

Against All Odds

A group of unsupervised mental patients running from Katrina made it from New Orleans to Houston. Victor Fruge led the way.

Cranked

Meth users are really proDuctive, sExy, hAppy anD slim

Insanely Guilty

A mother sets out to save her children, by killing them. Texas usually jails such women, but that may be changing.

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.

Getting Out

Too scared to leave her house, Sandy has one last chance: a county crisis team that will come to her

Law and Disorder

Films that look at madness in the eyes of the law

Letters

Films that look at madness in the eyes of the law

A Hanging Offense

Did the Devereux Treatment Center provide the care Cecilia Garrett needed or did it drive the young teenager to her death?

Deal of a Lifetime

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?

Judging Rory

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.

Common Cents

Area housing for the mentally ill remains deplorable, but a state subsidy might improve conditions

Sick Kids

For many mentally ill teenagers in Texas, the only way to get treatment is to get arrested.

Best Consumer Advocates

Houston Area Mental Health Advocates

Rx for Failure?

MHMRA restricts Medicaid services at mental health clinic pharmacies

Mental Lapse

Increasing deficits cause MHMRA to close a new treatment clinic

Super Vision

By keeping a constant eye on its mentally ill clients, an ACT team heads off all sorts of troubles

Hands On

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

Upstairs Down - and Out?

A money-starved mental health treatment unit may die in its infancy

The Way Back

Funding cuts kill work programs as well as treatment services

Future Shock

Can the system keep up with the evolution of mental health?

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.

Tackling the Taboo

Despite suicides and inner strife, Asian-Americans resist psychotherapy

Methadone Meltdown

Dr. Amos and Cecilia Ozumba ran Houston Maintenance Clinic for four years. Have they finally run it into the ground?

Real Life

Dr. Amos and Cecilia Ozumba ran Houston Maintenance Clinic for four years. Have they finally run it into the ground?

Downing

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

Dangerous Deficits

Mental health cuts may come back to haunt the public

Downing

Mental health cuts may come back to haunt the public

Trouble in Mind

Texas's mentally impaired used to go to treatment centers. Now they go to prison.

Houston's Craziest

Texas's mentally impaired used to go to treatment centers. Now they go to prison.

The 30 Craziest People In Houston: An Official HPD List

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 >>

Houston's Craziest Headline?

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 >>

Detox Craze: Stupid or Sane?

​We can't turn on the TV or the radio without hearing about the latest detox craze. Just the other day, we heard Rod Ryan talk about how great the Blessed Herbs one-week cleanse was on his radio show. Trust us, we really don't need to hear about his cleanse in detail that early in the morning. ... More >>