Families failed by a broken mental health care system often have no one to call but police. | NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness

Families failed by a broken mental health care system often have no one to call but police.

Posted on July 6, 2016

The second in a series, "The Deaparate and the Dead"about the Massachusetts mental health care system, this article focuses on deadly confrontations with police. It is linked to an additional article,"Crisis in the Woods."

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