Enhanced medical benefits, police training, alternative sentencing and outpatient treatments are all being considered.
Georgia lawmakers are drafting legislation to make mental health and behavioral issues a priority in the upcoming legislative session by pressuring private insurance companies to upgrade their mental health care coverage after an increase in suicides in the state.are expected to introduce new legislation Wednesday with a focus on mental health and substance abuse.
Judy Fitzgerald, the commissioner for the Department of Behavioral Health from 2019 to 2020, told the AP that suicides in rural Georgia increased by 8 percent to a total of 428. Fitzgerald said the preliminary data for 2021 was worse. The AP reported Georgia has been continuously ranked last by Mental Health American, a nonprofit group, as one of the worst states for people to have access to mental health care.
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