Issue Position: Mental Health
Issue Position
Issues: Health and Health Care
Over the years we have drastically cut the funding to our state's Mental Health System. Working as a prosecutor I have seen first-hand how many who would have previously been helped through access to mental health treatment have instead fallen into the spiral of self-medication (i.e. the opioid epidemic) leading so often to destroyed families and an overloaded our criminal justice system. Without adequately funding our mental health system those citizens have not been able to get the help and treatment that they desperately need.
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