Review

"Mental health and substance-use disorder care are afterthoughts in the current U.S. health care system, according to the chair of an Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee. In line with IOM recommendations, Dr. Kathol and Gatteau offer a prescription for reforming the mind-less, dis-integrated system. For consumers as well as health care administrators, they include case vignettes of complex patients in their analysis toward integrating care for physical and behavioral illness. Alternative medicine gets only passing mention."

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Book Description

Explains how treatment lines have been drawn by our current health care system between physical and mental disorders, despite the fact the two are often intertwined so the fragmented approach leads to ineffective treatment and higher health care costs for all of us.