Breakdown: A Crisis In Mental Health Care

A good read for all those itching to eliminate public-supported agencies such as CenterPoint.

By M. Paul Jackson and Phoebe Zerwick in today's Winston-Salem Journal:

HopeRidge Centers for Behavioral Health in Winston-Salem was supposed to be a model for the statewide reform of the public mental-health system in North Carolina. The idea was simple. Let the private sector treat state residents with a mental illness, an addiction or a developmental disability who had previously been treated by public agencies.
With privatization and competition, services would expand and improve - or so the theory went.