Abstract
The road to comprehensive mental health parity legislation at the state level often reaches a dead end when mental health advocates are forced to compromise by accepting partial parity for severe mental illness (SMI) only. In 1999 Connecticut became the first state to modify a biologically based or SMI mental health parity law into comprehensive mental health and substance abuse parity legislation. In this article we chronicle the fight for mental health parity in Connecticut and discuss subtleties of legislative advocacy. This information should prove useful to psychologists who are pursuing parity in other states.
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