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Opinion Roundup

By Steve Hall

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Today's Houston Chronicle carries an OpEd by attorney George Parnham, "HPD a forward-thinking leader in mental health." Parnham represented Andrea Yates. He and his wife, Mary, founded the Yates Children Memorial Fund with Mental Health America of Greater Houston to promote women's mental health education.As our nation continues to debate the merits of federal health care reform, Houstonians should realize that we have our own health care debate happening right here at home. It involves the people living with mental illness who cycle in and out of our publicly funded emergency rooms, jails and mental health crisis facilities with little hope of stabilization.While a part of this problem involves a basic lack of access to mental health services, many of these individuals, called ?frequent fliers? by law enforcement and medical personnel who have constant contact with them, have simply been receiving the wrong kinds of services...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 26, 2010 (boomark / email).