Report Backs Early Intervention for Serious Mental Illness-May help keep people with psychiatric conditions out of criminal justice system

by Shannon Firth, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today December 14, 2017
WASHINGTON -- Identifying individuals with serious mental illness early, keeping them out of emergency rooms and jails, and increasing their access to quality care formed the basis of the recommendations of a new committee charged with improving mental healthcare across the country in a report released Thursday.