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...anguished families who have coped for years with schizophrenia, the arrival of a new drug that can dramatically help even a portion of the victims is cause for elation. The nation at large should celebrate as well. According to a 1991 study by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), mental illness costs the country $129 billion annually, and schizophrenia alone steals a disproportionate $50 billion -- roughly equivalent to what the Federal Government spent last year on all Medicaid grants. Drugs and doctor bills, hospital beds and police problems add up to $29 billion; lost income and family crises account...
...Walt Disney, after all, created the genre, turning barnyard animals into superstars and a Sunday-supplement curiosity into the movie's most enduring subspecies. Bluth, a Disney renegade, showed his old masters that the cartoon possessed a social vitality for the '80s. Bluth's The Secret of NIMH was a parable on animal experimentation; An American Tail found much to say, endearingly, about melting-pot prejudice; The Land Before Time found love and death among the dinosaurs. Now Disney and Bluth have launched a welcome new Thanksgiving tradition, each producing a feature cartoon for the rescue of baby-sitters...
...fourth panel, Dorwart and Assistant Professor of Social Medicine Mark Schlesinger presented a study sponsored by the National Institute ofMental Health (NIMH...
...NIMH Senior Science Advisor Ira D. Glick alsopresented a national plan to combine public andprivate mental health services in the battleagainst severe mental illness, particularlyschizophrenia...
...problem is there is inadequate treatmentbecase of inadequate resources in an inadequatesystem," Glick said in the presentation. "We needa strategy to develop new research to maximizeeffective treatment." Several NIMH committees haveconvened to organize strategy, Glick said, and theresults are being refined...