Description: Staff cuts announced at Brookline Mental Health Center; therapists weep. Philip Johnston distressed over reduced human services funds. Michael Dukakis, Edward Lashman.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/12/1990
Description: Former Bay Cove Adolescent Counseling Center is empty of teens since state funding was cut. Interview with former client and mother about transition to another mental health program. Recreation room.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/11/1990
Description: Human Services Secretary Philip Johnston officially endorses condoms in state program to reduce spread of AIDS. Larry Kessler.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/24/1990
Description: Judge Sally Kelly acquits Jon Parker of illegal possession of hypodermic needles, which he distributed to drug addicts on Mission Hill to cut down on the spread of AIDS. Dr. George Lamb.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/09/1990
Description: Shelter operators sue Mental Health Department to take responsibility for mentally ill homeless people. Ray Flynn, Richard Ring, Henry Tomes. Homeless people lie near heat vent outside BPL, line up for food.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/03/1990
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: Man who started toxic waste dumping business in 1947 tells of nuclear, explosive and chemical barrels in Mass. Bay. Fisherman caught barrels in net, became ill from contents. Photos of dumping. Julie Belaga.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/26/1990
Description: AIDS activist criticizes Bush agenda and funding for the disease because it is unsuitable for an epidemic and lacks compassion.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/28/1990
Description: Mental health advocates sue state for confining mentally retarded people in Metropolitan and Taunton State Hospitals. Commissioner Henry Tomes says state lacks funds for group homes.b-roll of hospitals
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/24/1990
Description: State public health study shows alarming incidence of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) among teens. David Mulligan, Philip Johnston. Pedestrians at Downtown Crossing in spring coats.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/10/1990