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September 8 - September 30, 2020
Most of the challenges of mental illness and addiction feel incredibly unique and private when, in fact, they are remarkably common: nearly 25 percent of all Americans are personally affected by mental illness and addiction every day, one-third of all U.S. hospital stays involve these diseases, and they have a huge impact on everyone else.
Mental illness
They remind me every day of our most underappreciated treatments for these illnesses: love and faith.
Treatment is love and faith
More than half the people who have been diagnosed with any mental illness do not get treatment at all.
No treatment
(This is also a big part of the reason why so many Americans with mental illness are now housed in prisons.)
Medicaid exclusion no inpatient for mentally ill
The Reagans instead decided to slash funding for addiction treatment and addiction education, and attempted to solve the growing problem by spending massively to quash supply—in the US and, militarily, abroad.
War on drugs
We couldn’t send police to them; we were generally trying to get them to go to emergency rooms.
No er for suicide
