Today begins Mental Illness Awareness Week. Established by Congress in 1990 thanks to efforts by the tireless National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), it occurs every year during the first week of October to raise awareness about mental illness. According… Continue Reading
I don’t always trust the way the government uses its funds to research on health. If you ask me why all that negativity, I turn to you: Do these studies look like good ways of using around a couple hundred… Continue Reading
There’s nothing wrong with the size of the field. The National Institute of Mental Health estimates that nearly one in four adults in America suffers from a diagnosable mental order in any given year. And there’s not been much to… Continue Reading
Democrat William Proxmire served as the US Senator from Wisconsin from 1957 to 1989.“[T]he biggest, most ridiculous or most ironic example of government spending or waste.” ~ Senator William Proxmire, on the Golden Fleece Awards It took him almost 20 years to… Continue Reading
