Oklahoma's mental services suffer cuts

 
BY SONYA COLBERG | Modified: February 15, 2010 at 6:58 am | Published: February 15, 2010   

A huge question looms for Susan Boehrer. And she figures she has particular insight, because mental illness plunged her daughter into more than 400 days of hospitalization and a violent conduct disorder made her son a ward of the juvenile justice system.

photo - 2009 file photo - Susan Boehrer and her daughter Maddy Boehrer, 17. The family has spent years on Maddy’s mental health treatment. PHOTO BY JULIE BISBEE
2009 file photo - Susan Boehrer and her daughter Maddy Boehrer, 17. The family has spent years on Maddy’s mental health treatment. PHOTO BY JULIE BISBEE

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