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...Group and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI). "Not since the 1820s have so many mentally ill individuals lived untreated in public shelters, on the streets and in jails." Up to 30% of the estimated 500,000 homeless in the U.S. suffer from serious mental disorders, mostly schizophrenia and manic depression, as do 10% of the 1 million people behind bars. With 3,600 psychotic inmates, the Los Angeles County jail is "the largest de facto mental institution in the nation," says the report. Countless other distressed people inhabit squalid apartments or transient hotels, without adequate food, clothing...
...Marx was discussing this case with a former Dutch ballerina named Joyce Vanderveen, she challenged his theory as implausible, and the two of them decided to investigate further. They discovered that Millette, who was found drowned shortly after Bern's death, suffered not from a coma but from acute schizophrenia. But nothing shook the finding of suicide until Marx met a minor comedian who had been a drinking pal of retired MGM security chief Whitey Hendry's. Hendry, shortly before his death, told this pal that he had accompanied Mayer to Bern's house that first morning...
Doctors and lawmakers are outraged over the cost of a new schizophrenia drug that could benefit thousands. -- An acne drug can prevent some cancers...
...many who suffer from chronic schizophrenia, the drug clozapine seems to work miracles. One woman who thought she was God and could control the weather was in and out of mental institutions 35 times before starting on the antipsychotic drug. After only a few weeks of treatment, she was free from delusions and making plans to go to college. Clozapine, approved by the Food and Drug Administration in February, could benefit an estimated 100,000 people...
Several state attorneys general are investigating Sandoz for possible antitrust violations, while a handful of advocacy groups have launched lawsuits to force Medicaid to pick up the clozapine tab. But to patients with schizophrenia, these legal and legislative maneuverings mean little. All that matters to them is an impossible price tag standing between their current mental anguish and a productive life...