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Mental healthcare problems in Louisiana prior to 2005 hurricanes
| Low per-capita spending on mental healthcare |
| Little utilization of health information technologies/electronic medical records in mental healthcare |
| High rates of illicit substance use in adults |
| High rates of serious mental illness in adults |
| High rate of household poverty |
| Findings of widespread incompetence and fraud in community mental health system |
| Recurrent monetary reductions in state’s mental health budget |
