Word: ills
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...could reemerge in the battle over the right to die. In a little-noticed move Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee approved a bill banning the use of "controlled substances" - prescription drugs - in physician-assisted suicide, which is currently legal only in Oregon. The bill, sponsored by Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), was approved by a 16-8 committee vote, and will face a full House vote in the coming weeks. Sponsors of the measure hope that it will prevent terminally ill patients and their doctors from ending the patient?s life. The House bill, and its Senate version, sponsored by Majority...
Anyone who believes there is "only one species of human on the planet" has never shopped at Wal-Mart. BETH WITHERELL Peoria, Ill...
...potential case load is overwhelming, with 3.5 million Americans suffering from severe forms of mental illness, according to the Treatment Advocacy Center. In 1998, New York City police handled 60,000 calls to 911 regarding EDPs. The city treats approximately 344,000 people with mental illness or substance-abuse problems, according to the city's mental-health agency. Of those, 40,000 have serious, persistent mental-health problems. In Memphis, Tenn., police with mental-health training, as part of a crisis-intervention team, are sent to any scene involving an unstable individual. In Los Angeles, police specifically trained to deal...
...health adjunct ever since laws passed in the 1960s required mental wards to release anyone who did not want to stay, unless he or she could be proved dangerous. Massive deinstitutionalization occurred. Since 1969, 93% of psychiatric beds have been emptied across the country, and many of the mentally ill end up in the prison system or fending for themselves. Any other way leads to a legal morass. Zdanowicz says, "You can't force someone into an institution unless a whole bunch of criteria are met." The situation is so dire that if family or friends report that...
...York City, councilman Noach Dear, who represents the district where the shooting occurred, says the issue is not new to him. Across from his office, a mentally ill woman living in a small apartment almost daily flings feces out her window. "The police say they can't do anything about it," Dear says. "The mental-health department says it can't do anything. People look at me and say, 'Why do we need you, if you can't do anything about this?' It's very frustrating...