Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wary of opposition from budget-conscious Congressmen, Kennedy argued that the states and the nation are now indulging in the worst kind of false economy. There are 600,000 Americans in institutions for the mentally ill, and more than 200,000 in those for the mentally retarded. The average spent on their care is only $4 a day; in some states it is a niggardly $2. The direct cost to the taxpayers is $2.4 billion a year, but, said President Kennedy, the indirect costs to the taxpayer are far greater...
Priming the Pump. Nearly half of the 530,000 Americans in state mental institutions are jammed into hospitals that are so large the patients get no individual care. With a patient-psychiatrist ratio of 360 to 1, effective treatment is almost impossible. The mentally ill remain in the hospitals and get worse. The average stay for schizophrenics is eleven years. With drugs and other new treatments, said the President, two out of three schizophrenics can now be sent home within six months. "If we launch a broad new mental health program now, it will be possible within a decade...
...screening by the University Health Services or the prison psychiatrist [some subjects were prisoners], and psychological screening by a group of clinical psychologists." (R.Metzner, G. Litwin, G. Weil, "The relation of expectation and setting to experiences with psilocybin: a questionnaire study," dittoed, 1962). After a period in which no ill effects were reported, Leary dropped the requirement of an examination, and simply presented volunteers with the possible dangers and previous results. No physiological disasters, such as struck the Oklahoma elephant full of LSD-25, have been reported (although the newness of psilocybin, and the difficulty of obtaining fit from...
...convicted; the Justice Department, as well as the F.B.I., the McClellan Committee, investigating groups in both wings of the House, and even the C.I.A. have kept Hoffa's every move under surveillance for years; yet he has not been proved guilty in an American court. Until he is, it ill behooves the Attorney General to make a mockery of the court decisions...