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Economist: Mental Health Center would save EBR millions
Published on: May 19, 2015
If residents with mental illness and substance abuse problems were treated instead of jailed, East Baton Rouge government would directly save millions of tax dollars and accumulate secondary benefits, an economic analysis commissioned by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation concludes. Basing his research on an effective model in San Antonio, economist M. Ray Perryman calculates […]