And while the emphasis had been on education, it is now shifting toward treatment.
Such thinking reflects a shift toward greater treatment for the oldest old.
While participants used to have a year or more of treatment, there is now a push toward holding treatment to six months.
In the last decade or so, many psychiatrists have shifted toward more treatment by drugs.
Currently, only about a third of the money that the state spends each year on drug abuse goes toward treatment.
Although progress has been made toward better understanding and treatment of schizophrenia, continued investigation is urgently needed.
The movement toward shorter treatment is a swing of a pendulum, following a 10-year trend the other way.
The remaining 30 percent will go toward treatment, prevention and education.
Do I believe that more effort should be pushed toward prevention and treatment rather than incarceration?
Would the risk-benefit ratio swing toward treatment in those cases?