And So the Fall Out From Regressive Mental Health Law Legislation Begins:

Central Virginia Community Services Board is closing its residential substance abuse treatment program to save money.  What does that have to do with the new laws you ask?  Well the truth behind the new laws is that there is not enough money for Virginia’s Community Service Boards to implement the regressive new standards for in and outpatient commitment, so the money is going to have to come from other places in their budgets.  The program at CVCS was losing money because Medicaid would not pay for it so it must have been coming out of the CSB’s general pool of funds, funds they are going to need starting July 1 to screen, evaluate and “monitor” all the new folks who are going to be forced into mental health treatment.  The substance abuse program is closing at the end of June, just as the new regressive laws come into effect.  Coincidence?  You decide.