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Featured: Interviews for the Well-Informed

Featured: Interviews for the Well-Informed

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Friday, October 18, 2013

Getting Treatment For Mental Illness (Diane Rehm Show)

Interview:
 http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2013-10-15/getting-treatment-mental-illness

We spend $140 billion on public mental health services in this country, but at any given time, approximately half of all seriously mentally ill people receive no treatment at all. Lack of public understanding is part of the problem: many still believe severe mental illness is psychological rather than biological. Federal programs conceived half a century ago to replace much maligned state institutions were poorly conceived, never adequately coordinated and, by all accounts, woefully inadequate. Today, family members, police officers and the courts find themselves on the front lines of this crisis. Diane and her guests discuss the challenges of getting help for people with severe mental illness.
 
 


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