Mental health treatment is higher financial burden in U.S. South

Thursday, May 7, 2009 - 23:35 in Health & Medicine

About 11 percent of people using outpatient mental health and substance abuse treatment in the U.S. South used more than 5 percent of their family's annual income to cover their out-of-pocket treatment costs over the period 2001-2005, according to a new study by researchers with HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality...

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