Access Denied: 4Reasons Why Mississippi Ranks Last in Mental Health Services

Jamie Hairston
3 min readMay 29, 2024

I was researching what I should write about and discovered that Mississippi ranks 50th for access and availability of mental health treatment, so that is what I will discuss today. I hate that access to health care and mental health services is such a challenge here, and even worse I am not sure that even if it were more available it would still be accessible. The mental health and the health field are seeing higher demand and less ability to manage that demand regularly. Either way, it is an important enough issue that U

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Jamie Hairston

Jamie is a former addiction counselor who now writes fiction about substance abuse and mental health issues.