States need an agenda on serious mental illness

Last month, a new state-run psychiatric hospital opened in Dallas, one of the first built in several decades. The Texas Behavioral Health Center is part of a multi-year, multibillion-dollar investment by the state to rebuild and modernize its state hospital system. No other state has made a dedicated investment of this kind, despite a nationwide shortage of psych beds.Texas’s investment represents a needed shift. While states have poured tens of billions of dollars into unaccountable generic mental health efforts, serious mental illness has remained chronically undertreated. States need a strategy for serious mental illness. Texas is providing a framework for that.

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