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Times are hard in Sweetwater, a town of about 10,000 people in Texas’ Central Plains. Drug abuse is rife, work is limited, and mental healthcare is scarce and stigmatized. Here’s @TexasObserver’s story on the crisis in Sweetwater — one which is replicated in rural towns across the country.

texasobserver.org/mental-healt

The Texas Observer · 'This Town Has Nothing': Rural Texas' Mental Healthcare CrisisAgainst long odds, Sweetwater’s public hospital recruited counselors to help address a wave of mental health crises in rural Texas—yet struggles continue.