A Failure to Measure Up: On Mental Health, Twin States Lag

Valley News - Quotes Robert Drake, professor of psychiatry, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel, on the state of New Hampshire's mental health services, and how although the state had emerged during the 1980s as a national leader in strengthening community mental health care organizations and services, the system eventually deteriorated due to budget cutting and an increasingly hostile political environment. "It was amazing how fast they degraded a system that took us 20 years to build up," said Drake.