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July 2003
NAMI
Report
 Shattered Lives
Seventy-one
percent reported an annual income of $20,000 or less; nearly 20
percent reported less than $5,000 in annual income. Two-thirds
were unemployed. More than half rely on public programs. In the
last year alone, nearly half were hospitalized. Forty-percent
sought emergency care last year. Forty-four percent reported being
arrested or detained by police.
This is the
portrait of people with serious mental illnesses painted by the
results of a national survey of NAMI members conducted early in
2003, which launched our broad initiative TRIAD,
Treatment/Recovery Information and Advocacy Database to monitor
the mental health system and its outcomes.
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