Schizophrenia Treatment 22% of Mental Health Spending: Assessing the Burden & the Solutions

OPEN MINDS The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst

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Schizophrenia, from any standpoint — payer, individual, family, society — is a resource-intensive mental illness. Literature on the economic impact of schizophrenia paints a picture of a disease whose cost to the individual and society is demonstrably large, but whose real impact is only roughly defined. Schizophrenia strikes individuals when they are young (age of onset typically occurs between the late teens and the mid-30s, according to the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM IV) and leaves . . .