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There are now about 800,000 such patients in this nation's institutionsâ600,000 for mental illness and over 200,000 for mental retardation. Every year nearly 1,500,000 people receive treatment in institutions for the mentally ill and mentally retarded.
Data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health â 2014 (PFD | 3.4 MB) show that 43.6 million adults ages 18 and older experienced some form of mental illness in the past year, or about 18.1% of the adult population.