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...evidence in the August trial of his former deputy, Lt. Col. Steven Jordan. Jordan faces six counts and up to 16 1/2 years in prison for alleged cruelty and maltreatment of prisoners, dereliction of duty and other charges. His defense team has already raised questions in court of the mental competence of unnamed prosecution witnesses, one of whom is believed to be Pappas...
...reproduce the sound of a 50-piece orchestra, hitting as many notes as his 10 fingers can reach together and then filling in the rest with arpeggios and scales. He can shift to a different key midway through a tune, without stopping. He can dip into his mental library of thousands of tunes and come up with surprising hybrids - Mozart in the style of Joplin; Culture Club's Karma Chameleon as Chopin might have played it; Handel's Water Music with a ragtime twist. "Very few musicians can do what he does," says Roger Huckle, the Emerald Ensemble's director...
...Mental Health Services tends to disagree with our self-diagnosis and self-medication, but there are only so many ways to make it through a school like Harvard. We crawl out of here beaten, stripped of our clothes, whipped, and heavy with severe messianic delusions, but we know that we have a degree and the knowledge that at least a portion of the class of 2007 is worth a damn...
...There are some promising signs. The state could provide funding for another 20 psych beds this summer, says Jerome Gibbs, executive director of the Metropolitan Human Services District, which oversees state-run mental health programs in the New Orleans area. University Hospital plans to have a mobile crisis unit operating on a site adjacent to the hospital by June, and is in negotiations with a closed mental health center uptown, where the hospital hopes to lease enough space to open 33 psychiatric beds. But staffing is still a huge challenge, Fontenot says. There are fewer resources available to follow patients...
...suicidal thoughts, substance abuse and domestic violence. The symptoms "have begun within the last couple of months to manifest themselves," he says. "But I think we still have a significant wave to occur. What we probably have now is a large number of people who possibly did not need mental health services before the storm, but with all the events associated with the storm - the loss of homes, the loss of family members, the loss of community - it takes its toll on people...