Pay-Now-or-Pay-Later

Mental illness is a pay-now-or-pay-later disease. People who don’t get routine treatment when they are more stable often end up needing emergency treatment after they become less stable – and when it costs more. Along the way from more to less stable, they also often generate significant public costs from arrest, incarceration, victimization, etc.

Click here to read a recent article written by Treatment Advocacy Center on:

Chicago’s Psych Patients Didn’t Disappear, They Just Got Sicker