Subject: Steven Schnee

• Nowhere to Land

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

  August 24, 2000

• Psychotic Reaction

  October 6, 1994

• Reality Check

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

  July 25, 2002

• Death at West Oaks Hospital

  October 25, 2007

• Against All Odds

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

  November 3, 2005

• 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.

  November 18, 2004

• Sick Kids

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

  November 8, 2001

• Rx for Failure?

  MHMRA restricts Medicaid services at mental health clinic pharmacies

  August 2, 2001

• Mental Lapse

  Increasing deficits cause MHMRA to close a new treatment clinic

  March 1, 2001

• 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

  February 22, 2001

• Upstairs Down - and Out?

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

  February 1, 2001

• Letters

  Mind Games, Bad Form, Executioner's Wrong

  December 7, 2000

• Future Shock

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

  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.

  November 9, 2000

• Dangerous Deficits

  Mental health cuts may come back to haunt the public

  August 19, 1999