The Line: The Cost Of Cutting Behavioral Health Services

February 5, 2016 – The Santa Fe New Mexican reported this week that the legislature may consider a 19 percent cut in the Human Services Department’s Behavioral Health Services Division. Advocates and providers have raised concerns about cuts to behavioral health and substance abuse programs.

Host Gene Grant discusses this news with this week’s Line opinion panelists: former state senators Mark Boitano and Dan Foley, author and political psychologist Martha Burk and Viki Harrison from Common Cause New Mexico.

Mentioned during the show: Generation Justice – #NMspeakscrisis