| Alcohol or drug abuse affects 25 million
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| | about one of America's most famous,
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| Americans; only four million get
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| | prolific and successful writers who for
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| treatment The need in this country for
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| | decades was either drunk or wired on
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| increased insurance coverage for alcohol
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| | cocaine, Xanax, Valium, NyQuil, cough
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| and drug addiction treatment is
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| | medicines, or marijuana? Was Stephen King
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| indisputable. Drug rehab and drug detox
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| | "mentally ill" when he wrote several
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| have little or no recognition among
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| | intricately plotted, best-seller
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| health insurers, yet drug addiction is a
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| | blockbuster novels? We never heard
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| major cause of ruined lives, family
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| | anything about "mental illness" when King
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| violence, emergency room visits, and
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| | went into drug rehab in the 1980s. And
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| death. According to the U.S. Bureau of
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| | he's been sober ever since. And let's not
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| Labor, alcohol and drug addiction also
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| | forget that Sigmund Freud, the father of
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| cost America $77 billion each year in
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| | psychoanalysis, was a habitual cocaine
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| lost productivity. Clearly something
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| | abuser who sang the drug's praises for
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| needs to be done to make it easier for
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| | years to anyone who would listen. After a
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| addicts to get alcohol and drug rehab.
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| | friend died of an overdose, he abruptly
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| But the question that leaps out when one
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| | gave it up and quit promoting it - not
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| reads the Paul Wellstone Mental Health
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| | the action one expects from someone who
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| Equitable Treatment Act, H.R. 1402, is
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| | is "mentally ill". The so-called "mental
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| this: is substance abuse and addiction
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| | health parity" bills such as the
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| "mental illness"? The proposed "Wellstone
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| | Wellstone bill have always failed to pass
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| bill", H.R. 1402, would require insurance
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| | - and there's been a lot of attempts over
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| companies to treat "addiction and other
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| | the decades. Aside from the huge lobbying
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| mental health disorders" on an equal
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| | efforts against it by the insurance
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| basis with other chronic diseases, such
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| | industry, perhaps people also feel deep
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| as diabetes or hypertension. The
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| | down that substance abuse and mental
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| Wellstone bill is being sponsored by U.S.
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| | illness are not the same thing at all and
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| Reps. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) and Jim
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| | do not belong together in a such a bill.
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| Ramstad (R-Minn). Kennedy has said that
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| | The "mental health industry", as it's
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| we should ". . . end the discrimination
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| | known today, receives billions of tax
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| against those with mental health and
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| | dollars every year in grants and other
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| substance abuse disorders." And Ramstad
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| | forms of support. In comparison,
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| said Congress should ". . . end the
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| | appropriations for alcohol and drug rehab
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| discrimination against people with mental
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| | are a drop in the bucket. Yet untreated
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| illness and chemical dependency." Where
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| | dependency and addiction are costing us
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| is this idea coming from that people with
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| | $77billion in lost productivity - more
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| schizophrenia or bipolar disorder are in
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| | than heart disease, diabetes and cancer
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| the same category as alcohol or drug
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| | combined, and far more than "mental
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| abuse, including those inadvertently got
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| | illness." According to the Substance
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| hooked on addictive prescription drugs.
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| | Abuse and Mental Health Services
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| Is it possible that they are not mentally
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| | Administration, nearly 25 million
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| ill - that they simply need drug detox
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| | Americans suffer from a substance abuse
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| and drug rehab? For example, was Justice
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| | problem. And less than four million of
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| William H. Rhenquist of the Supreme Court
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| | these victims receive the drug rehab they
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| "mentally ill" because he was hooked on
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| | need. If we really want to do something
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| powerful painkillers for a decade before
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| | about this situation, we need to separate
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| he entered drug rehab? You'd have a tough
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| | these two issues and get each of them
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| time convincing college law professors or
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| | into their own proposed legislation. That
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| anyone on the Supreme Court that we
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| | way we may have a better chance to get
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| should go back and cancel 10 years of
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| | the insurance industry up to speed on
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| brilliant and insightful decisions and
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| | helping the millions of Americans who are
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| opinions - the ones that later got
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| | not mentally ill, and who too often need
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| Rhenquist appointed Chief Justice -
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| | financial help getting into and through a
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| because he was "mentally ill." Or what
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| | successful drug rehab program.
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