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Officials Testify About Gaps in Texas Mental Health Services

(Thanh Tan, Texas Tribune) State health officials delivered a sobering assessment of mental health treatment in Texas, telling a Senate committee Wednesday that waiting lists for services have increased by 642 percent since September 2004 and that there is a severe shortage of psychiatrists and mental health workers available to treat patients. Overall, nearly 10,000 …

Officials Testify About Gaps in Texas Mental Health Services”