Chuck Ingoglia, president & CEO of the National Council for Behavioral Health, addresses President Trump's "mental institutions" comments:
"Let's be perfectly clear. The president is suggesting we return to an era of forcibly warehousing people with serious mental illness. The nation tried that approach and, rightfully abandoned it decades ago because it did not work. It did not work because it was applying a criminal solution to a health problem. And it did not work because it robbed people of their dignity. People living with serious mental illness need and deserve quality mental health treatment." Read the rest of the statement here.------------------------------
Nicholas Thomas
National Council for Behavioral Health
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