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...Among the downsides is that many of those with severe mental illness now go in and out of some form of penitentiary, often county jails, which only exacerbates their mental distresses and criminalises them...
...Meanwhile, Gold decided to plead guilty, figuring that the misdemeanour charge wouldn’t carry any jail time. (It also meant she wouldn’t lose her medical or law licences.)...
...committing to mental health....
...A report from the Well Being Trust, a foundation focused on mental health, predicted “deaths of despair” from suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, could rise because of Covid-19, leading to another 75,000 deaths...
...When another journalist asked at a press conference last month why the interior minister had been tested for coronavirus but not medical staff who had to treat patients without protective gear, he was also...
...Every week I cited my medical problems and demanded proper examinations and treatment for my prostate. “But you haven’t confessed,” he would say....
...He slammed the legislation, claiming that state prisoners were “a necessary evil to keep the doors open” at the jail in his county....
...But his mental health has deteriorated and in February he went on hunger strike in protest at the abuses he has suffered on Manus. He called off the hunger strike after three weeks....
...MM: But all that’s happening is that he and I began to bunk work on grounds of medical health....
...Ain’t nutt’n iambic bout dis....
...Although rough sleepers are often affected by mental health, alcohol and substance abuse problems, there was no medical or therapeutic help available at such shelters....
...“I also work as a volunteer teaching meditation at the county jail here in Boston. Stress is everywhere,” he says....
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