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About 700000 Americans are homeless and the number of mentally ill people living on the streets is growing. Filmmaker: Peggy Holter According to the US’ substance abuse and mental health services sdministration “as many as 700000 Americans are homeless on any given night. An estimated 20 to 25 per cent of these people have a serious mental illness”. The number of people who are homeless in the US has always been a stunning statistic that seems to run counter to the promise of the American Dream. In the past two years, compounded by the deep recession, it is a statistic that has only gotten substantially worse. There has long been a public policy debate about whether it is homelessness that leads many of those who are mentally ill to wind up on the street or if because they are already an at-risk population and their mental illness grows more severe by the difficult reality of living on the street with no support, no family care and few viable solutions. A large and growing homeless population is evident in every major city in the US. In Washington, DC it is seen as especially remarkable because so much of it is visible from the halls of power where government entities are meant to find solutions to these issues. Instead the nation’s capital has one of the largest homeless populations – about 40000 people. Among that number there is a seemingly equally intractable issue, the mentally ill homeless. For the past 30 years this number has grown substantially as the support …
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Little Girl Lost

Used – When a young girl, Emilia Troy, goes missing it isn’t long before rumours about what has happened have spread through the Peabody estate. Everybody thinks that the social worker assigned to the case, Joshua Salem, is the prime suspect. And stories about Emilia’s troubled father, Roger Troy are catching the imagination of the gossips. A once great scientist driven to insanity by the loss of his first wife – it is no wonder that speculation about his role in the disappearance of his daughte

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Life Lost to Obesity: not Just Quality

With two out of three Americans overweight today, we’re learning more and more about the numerous ways that carrying excess weight can really affect our health and diminish our quality of life.

But you may not have heard the hard facts about how overweight and obesity can diminish your quantity of life.

Simply put, overweight people die younger. On average, they lose as many years to their excess weight as smokers lose to their cigarettes.

It stands to reason, doesn’t it? With all the health problems that we know are caused or worsened by excess weight, it is to be expected that those who carry an excess would die sooner than those who don’t.

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Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin

Used – For her memoir SELF-MADE MAN: ONE WOMAN’S YEAR DISGUISED AS A MAN, Norah Vincent concealed her true identity and passed herself off as a male for an entire year. In this candid follow-up, Vincent describes how that experience affected her emotionally and eventually led to her decision to seek treatment for depression at three different psychiatric hospitals. Ever the “immersion journalist,” Vincent used the opportunity to not only improve her own mental health, but also to explore how th

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Hidden Costs, Value Lost: Uninsurance in America

Used – “Hidden Cost, Value Lost”, the fifth of a series of six books on the consequences of uninsurance in the United States, illustrates some of the economic and social losses to the country of maintaining so many people without health insurance. The book explores the potential economic and societal benefits that could be realized if everyone had health insurance on a continuous basis, as people over age 65 currently do with Medicare. “Hidden Costs, Value Lost” concludes that the estimated bene

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