Mental Health Inc: How Corruption, Lax Oversight, and Failed Reforms Endanger Our Most Vulnerable Citizens
✍ Scribed by Levine, Art
- Book ID
- 109792398
- Publisher
- The Overlook Press
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 765 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781468315318
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
The no-holds-barred and crucial call to action for America's broken mental health system, by a prize-winning investigative journalist
The mental health system in America is hardly a front-burner issue, despite lip-service about reform after a tragic mass killing. Yet every American should care deeply about fixing a system a presidential commission reported was in "shambles." By some measures, about 20 percent of Americans have some sort of mental health condition, including the most vulnerable among us--veterans, children, the elderly, prisoners, the homeless. With Mental Health Inc., award-winning investigative journalist Art Levine delivers a Shock Doctrine-style expose of the failures of our out of control, profits-driven mental health system, with a special emphasis on the failures of the pharmaceuticals industry, including the treatment of children with antipsychotics and disastrous PTSD protocols for veterans.
He provides narrative portraits of victims...