Dr. Tim Murphy: The Enormous Cost of Failing to Treat Schizophrenia

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The Enormous Cost of Failing to Treat Schizophrenia

By Tim Murphy, Bestselling Author of The Christ Cure

Its cost is driven by the failure to intervene early, provide sustained care, and recognize that neglect is the most expensive option of all.

A newly released study on schizophrenia exposes a hard truth: The greatest cost of this illness is not treatment, it is neglect. Schizophrenia affects roughly 1.2 percent of the adult population, (3.7 million), yet its annual economic burden has reached a staggering $366.8 billion. Most of this cost is not driven by medical care, but by poor, delayed, or entirely absent treatment. The dominant narrative suggests that serious mental illness is simply expensive

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