Costs of treating patients with psychosis change significantly as they age

(Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) Treating psychotic illnesses cost the province of Ontario, Canada almost $2.1 billion in 2012, which was about four per cent of the total provincial health budget, according to a new study. But even more striking, according to the researchers, is how health-care costs for patients with psychotic disorders changed as they aged.

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