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New Jersey’s 2021 budget should expand mental health treatment | Opinion

Providers report that many clients’ mental health conditions and addictions have worsened during the pandemic due to isolation, fear of the illness developing in themselves and their loved ones, disruption to their treatment, and economic impacts.

A patient self-administers a COVID-19 nasal swab test at a Walgreens pharmacy, Friday, July 31, 2020, in Newark. Gov. Phil Murphy says New Jersey’s coronavirus caseload and the rate of transmission have climbed higher and are “setting off alarms."
A patient self-administers a COVID-19 nasal swab test at a Walgreens pharmacy, Friday, July 31, 2020, in Newark. Gov. Phil Murphy says New Jersey’s coronavirus caseload and the rate of transmission have climbed higher and are “setting off alarms."Read moreJohn Minchillo / AP
    by Debra L. Wentz, For the Inquirer
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