Texas Merges Drug Treatment, Mental Health Services

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[-- very scary stuff... master race, here we come...]

 

 

 

http://www.jointogether.org/sa/news/summaries/reader/0,1854,574453,00.html

 

Texas Merges Drug Treatment, Mental Health Services

9/2/2004

 

Saying their goal is improving public health, Texas government

officials are dissolving the state Department of Health, the Texas

Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, and the Department of Mental

Health and Mental Retardation to create two new agencies: the

Department of State Health Services and the Department of Aging and

Disability Services, the Houston Chronicle reported Sept. 1.

 

The Department of State Health Services will oversee mental and

medical health services for clients, including addiction treatment.

The Department of Aging and Disability Services will oversee services

for the mentally retarded, the disabled, and the elderly.

 

Health Commissioner Eduardo Sanchez said the new configuration should

allow the state to treat the health needs of residents holistically.

 

" As a family physician in the past, I didn't take care of a person's

pancreas or a person's heart. I took care of the whole person, "

Sanchez said. " We will have the tools to do it now. "