Tag: mental illness
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Jail is the new state mental hospital. Where are the diversion programs?
@joenegronfl @MaryLynnMagar Jail is the new state mental hospital. and Florida is one of the worst places. If its “our money” we’d like to keep it and not waste it on housing people. We need a real solution. Stop wasting our money on a solution that doesn’t work and hurts people. Here is a TC…
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June is educate your legislators in mental illness month. I said so!
@joenegronfl who said http://fcir.org/2012/07/26/florida-slips-even-lower-in-mental-health-funding/ “More specifically, state Sen. Joe Negron, R-Palm City, advocated cuts to so-called soft services, which include mental health and drug-addiction programs, because many of these services address what Negon views as “a lack of willpower, a lack of discipline, a lack of character.” Negron was the chair of appropriations for health and human services…
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The Asylum Life: House on the Hill.
The Asylum Life: House on the Hill. What goes around comes around. It’s still nurses week and I’m giving my brain a rest from the usual suspects. Danver’s State Hospital was the second state hospital in Mass that I worked in. My third job in psych. I had worked at the “Cambridge Hotline” as a…
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