Revised Letter to the Editor
the previous letter was deemed to lengthy. Here is a revised edition. -=================== The Schulte Report begins with the sentence “The North Dakota mental health and substance abuse system is in crisis. “ Our son has mental illness. Now, we are being told that it is common practice for parents to give up custody to the state in order to continue to access prescribed and necessary services. Two psychiatrists told us that in order to facilitate care, we need to bring our son to the hospital, state that we can no longer care for him, give up custody of our son, terminating our right to seek out mental health care for his needs. How is this possible?? He is adopted, with attachment disorder, one of many that he has. How does abandoning him to the state affect him? We have insurance, in fact, our son has dual insurances. He is