Article: Closing gaps in mental health care for persons with serious mental illness. (Commentary).

Ronald Kessler and colleagues, using data from the National Comorbidity Survey (NCS), estimate that in the period from 1990 to 1992, 5.4 million people in the U.S. household population between the ages of 18 and 54 years with a serious mental illness received no treatment in the prior year (4.7 million) or dropped out of treatment (0.7 million). Extrapolating to those not covered by the survey, this estimate rises above six million. The magnitude of unmet need for persons with even the most serious mental illnesses is not surprising news but reveals again the extraordinary failures of our mental health services system despite significant improvements in psychiatric drugs ...

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