Former US mental-health tsar calls for a care overhaul - Nature.com

Thomas Insel advocates better social policy, not just more brain research. By Alison Abbott

US prisons hold ten times as many people with severe mental illness as do state psychiatric hospitals.Credit: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters/Alamy Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental HealthThoma… [+6649 chars]

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