Description: Community mental health services are jeopardized by state budget cuts. Boston administrator Gerry Morrissey pleads for $$$ for the many patients who will suffer. Beds in night shelter for mentally ill.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/22/1989
Description: Acute overcrowding in state mental hospitals; human warehouses for people who need care in other facilities. Bunk beds, mattresses lined up on floor.Edward Murphy, mental health commissioner. B-roll of Danvers State Hospital, exterior & interior.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/21/1988
Description: Senate commission recommends sweeping improvements for conditions in state mental hospitals. Sen. Nicholas Costello, John Houston.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/03/1989
Description: Mental patients and their therapists demonstrate for continued funding of East Boston - Winthrop Counseling Centers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/17/1990
Description: House proposes increase in income tax rather than sales tax. POS on tax preference. Michael Dukakis explains advantage of out-of-staters crossing border to make purchases with lower sales tax.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/11/1990
Description: METHUEN WORKS TO CONTAIN FLOODING OF MERRIMACK RIVER AFTER HEAVY RAIN. DAMN AND PUMPING STATION TO CONTROL FLOODING OF CHARLES RIVER.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/06/1987
Description: Austere interior of methadone clinic. Nurse at window counter with two pitchers. No addicts. Interview with doctor at Boston City Hospital on reason to develop alternative or transitional treatments for heroin addiction. Syringe in calibrated bottle of yellow liquid.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/08/1977
Description: Methadone clinic criticized for not allowing enough time (18 months) for detox from maintenance program. Heroin.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/06/1988
Description: Addicts in Boston visit methadone van to help themselves withdraw from heroin use and limit spread of AIDS. Mobile clinic.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/27/1989
Description: Two patients at Metropolitan State are ready to go out on their own, but cannot get out of the mental hospital. They sue the state to end their confinement while awaiting group homes. Henry Tomes.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/25/1990