as with most chronic illnesses, even though we have come so far with addictions and in mental illness we still are not at the same level of knowledge and expertise that we are with learning about diabetes and cancer and heart disease and even alzheimer's disease. so we have come a long way, but we have a lot longer to go to be able to get this to a level where all physicians, like dr. greene, who understands the behavioral health issues and understands addictions. so it becomes just one of the many physical health issues that we look at. and within the context of samhsa and the strategic initiatives, where is that going to take us to further the science? well, samhsa has eight strategic initiatives. we are focusing on everything from prevention right straight through to several different populations. we are looking at trauma and justice issues. we are looking at the military, because the military right now and the military families are really using the services that we have and are showing signs of both mental illness issues around depression and anxiety and suicide as well as addicti

, aids, autoimmune diseases, chronic illnesses of all kinds. and even including hospice patients. mission herbal care will be a holistic health center. it's unique. it's going to stand out by providing extra services at a very low cost. it's providing home delivery for the house bound and mobility impaired. and this is providing more services than just getting cannabis that's been medically prescribed. he's addressing the reasons people need the cannabis, and that's what's most important. he's asked me as a clinical social worker, would i be willing to provide group counseling as well as individually counseling with the patients with mental health needs. i have happy and enthusiastically endorsed that idea. as you heard, he wants to add physical therapy, occupational therapy, chiropractic services and maybe some innovative art therapy that i know how to do to augment and address the medical mission herbal care will be a holistic health center. it's unique. it's going to stand out by providing extra services at a very low cost. it's providing ho

jordan, you have had, yourself, some experiences with the problems of mental illness and substance use disorders. correct? right. i think the two and two go hand-in-hand. i think that, myself, the first time i picked up a drink was when i was a freshman in high school. statistics show that ages 12 to 17, a young adult in that age, they are twice as likely to pick up their first drink or drug if they experience some type of depression within that year. i was diagnosed with depression in 10th grade. for me, i look at, you know, when i speak to high school and even college students, is that 7 out of 10 young adults who have a serious substance abuse problem also have a serious mental health issue that is occurring with that. so i think, again, they do go hand-in-hand. it is quite high, isn't it? yes, that statistic. and how did you manifest the problem? were your parents aware of the difficulties that you might have been having? yes, i think my parents were very aware of the problem of me drinking, but one of the problems was that no one wanted to see what the root was of the problem of m

, aids, autoimmune diseases, chronic illnesses of all kinds. and even including hospice patients. mission herbal care will be a holistic health center. it's unique. it's going to stand out by providing extra services at a very low cost. it's providing home delivery for the house bound and mobility impaired. and this is providing more services than just getting cannabis that's been medically prescribed. he's addressing the reasons people need the cannabis, and that's what's most important. that's what's most important. he's asked me as a clinical

it's not about the people who are terminally ill. it's about recovering from cancer who are losing the support of this government. now, mr. speaker, mr. speaker, we know he doesn't think his policies through. isn't this one occasion when if ever there was a case to pause, listen and reflect, this is it. why doesn't he do so? >> what we have seen this week is the right honorable gentleman get on the wrong side of every issue. with its cutting the deficit we now have the cbi, the iod, the imf, his brother, tony blair, all on our side and only he is on his own. on welfare reform, we have everyone recognizing welfare needs to be reformed. apart from the right honorable gentleman and on the health service, yes, we now have the royal college of gp's, the royal college of nurses, the royal college of physicians, the former labour health minister and tony blair all on the side of reform and on his own the right honorable gentleman, a weak leader of a divided party. that's what we've learned this week. >> mr. raymond -- order! >> thank you, m

heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, stroke, those kinds of chronic illnesses.nd you have them into your aging process, you are not going to have a comfortable old age. you are also seeing in terms of epidemics, an increase in alzheimer's and it is going to increase as the population increases. there are quite a few seniors who have mental health problems but they are also, the majority of seniors, who are hard-working, who had minimum wage jobs their whole lives, who paid social security. think about living on $889 a month in the city of san francisco needing to buy medication, one meal a day, hopefully, and health care. if we could provide health care early on we might prevent (inaudible) and people would be less likely to end up in the emergency room with a drastic outcome. we could actually provide prevention and health care to people who had no other way of getting health care, those without insurance, it might be more cost effectiti >> hello. welcome to "meet your district supervisor." we are here with supervisor mar, who was elected in 2008 and is about h

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illness affects people in a variety of ways. there's no one solution. yeah, i think we're also working with the department of emergency management. so we're getting statistics from them. >> i think the other thing that's important, the reason we want to go after behaviors is we can look at someone who's not responding. if a police officer approaches someone and they don't answer, there are so many different reasons. we're what we're trying to do is give them that awareness or kind help them promote that awareness. they already do t most of the officers do. in fact sergeant jackson was saying she dealt recently with someone who was deaf. if someone doesn't answer you, that may be because they can't hear you or maybe they don't speak the language or maybe they're autistic and don't make eye contact and don't respond normally. i think we're looking at the situation and all that sort of taking a breath before the next action to kind of go, wait a second, before i act in this reactive mode based on what i think this is, am i really sure -- let's find a littl

. >> i am here to address the issue of cutting services for the mentally ill in san francisco. in response to a rash of police shootings of the mentally ill the past few years, the police commission approved the implementation of the memphis model of crisis intervention training for the police department. the model is a community effort in joining the police department and the community together for understanding and service to the mentally ill and their families. the effort being put into the model will not bear fruit if cuts to mental health services continue. proposed cuts of up to 22,0500 bed days for those in crisis while increasing caseloads and closing clinics will make it impossible for the new program to be successful. please make no further cuts to mental health services. >> thank you. >> my name is greg sass. i am the chief financial officer for the health department. i do most of the work on the budget. to put this into context, the health department is the largest department in the city. we get the largest amount of the general fund. as a consequence, we get the la

i'm thinking, judge, why don't you say allegedly ill, because we don't know that she was ill.i've watched her a lot in court today. she did not sob once today. she was wiping away tears, but she did not look good. all of us in court were emotionally horrified. so was she upset about her little girl or herself she may be a step closer of being convicted of murder, was she trying to show it to the jury or a combination of all three? we don't know for sure and will really never know if she was truly ill. >> gary tuchman, dr. drew, thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> still ahead tonight, part three of our "360" investigation, the sissy boy experiment, uncovering the truth. research that's still being embraced by those who think they can prevent kids from becoming gay or change them. kids like ryan kendall, sent to reparative therapy when she was just 14 years old. he says he was told being gay was a choice and a sin. he said the treatment tore his family apart. >> i don't get that decade of my life back. i don't get those opportunities back. and i don't get my family back. and i

does not work. >> reporter: the videos cover a variety of illnesses. heart disease, dementia. there are typically three options. the first-- prolong life at any cost, including breathing tubes and c.p.r. the second offers only medical treatment, like chemotherapy and antibiotics. finally, there's comfort care, which may include medical treatment but which focuses on relieving suffering. for bernadette wilson, the videos were an eye opener about two aggressive procedures. >> c.p.r., and putting on a breathing machine. it doesn't work for cancer patients. >> reporter: what did you think before you saw the tapes? >> that it probably would work. >> reporter: what did you tell the doctors? >> that i don't want to be resuscitated. when i saw that gentleman laying there on that ventilator, that... that was difficult. you know, i wouldn't want that for me or anyone else. >> reporter: studies show most patients that watch these videos change their minds about what they want and choose less- aggressive care. harry. >> smith: why does this seem to be so difficult

they said also she suffered from a history of mental illness. was she of sound mind to even consider this idea of ending her own life? >> well, was she of sound mind? we thought so. she was sufficiently sound to get along in society. she had friends, she had a car, she kept a lovely house, she was a person who officially is of sound enough mind to get along in society. she's not incarcerated. she has had mental therapy. so we were considering her of a sound mind. >> during your tenure with the final exit network, how many applications did you review and how many did you actually approve? >> well, in the four or five years roughly, i don't -- i didn't keep a tally of the numbers, so that the president of the organization, dr. denson, would be a better source. i would guess around 300 patients, people that applied for this service. >> and can you give a percentage? if someone applies, how likely are they to be approved? >> well into the 90%. >> most people. >> everybody -- pardon? >> most people get approved. what criteria are you considering when

just like if you had a bad illness, got hit by a truck, it would take a while for you to mend. that is what is happening to this economy. it is taking a while to mend. >> they say that the government is like a bystander at the scene of that accident, unable to help anymore. today the dollar dropped in value. with interest rates at 0 and no appetite for printing more money, congress does not expect much more government intervention. >> the economy is almost on its own. >> what does that mean? >> that cut -- that progress is going to be slow and that for many americans it does not feel like a recovery. >> building up the economy to full strength may be painfully slow. fewer economists think that there will be a second recession and that the economy is precarious to the ill winds. >> in the united states john edwards has been indicted on felony charges by a federal grand jury in north carolina. accused of spending $1 million in campaign money to cover up an extramarital affair. he pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy and of making false statements. >> he was once a rising s

they get it for, you know, whether it's a mental illness or a physical illness and a lot of the goalt it bumped up. and that way you don't have to, you know, it's $800, $1,000 that you don't necessarily -- i shouldn't say work for but it makes life easier and for me, as you said i could afford not to because it was kind of supporting my alcohol problems, my -- and i'm not saying -- i mean, it's helped me tremendously but when i was in the -- in my mix, when i was unhealthy and making poor decisions, it was just a way for me to support my addiction, essentially, and i know plenty of people that i was friends with and that i served with that, you know, it's kind of the same thing. where it's a convenience thing. you know, it pays certain bills and it does certain things, so why get help when that will take away from the money you're making every month essentially. money that goes in the bank. >> thank you, mr. hanson. it's not easy to talk about your own life here, but in your written testimony you do mention certain things you think the va could do to serve you and your comrades bette

the real scenarios that we run into is when our patients are ill and their medical illness is causing erratic behavior, confusion, delirium, agitation, things that comprise our ability to take care of them at a time when they do not have a decision-making capacity for the short term. examples may be infections or brain injury, that type of thing, where patients really need care. their behavior precludes them from getting the care. not only that, they can be violent and combative, not their fault, but the effect of the illness, and they can harm staff and harm other patients. in that situation there is not a legal hold and a legal avenue for a law enforcement officer to intervene. it's not a legal issue. this is a health care issue. if we have our own security, which frankly, most hospitals have. if you look around the city, they don't have mrpolice office. they have security who work as part of the health care team and abide by hospital policies and uphold our goal to maintain safety for our patients and for our staff and insure that we can treat patients who temporarily do not have c

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he claim he assisted in the deaths of more than 100 terminal ill people.ent 8 years in prison for second degree murder. oregon, washington, and montana now allow physician assisted suicide. >>> they confirm four people in this country have been sickened by the deadly bacteria located in europe. the reports with details on why scientists are so worried here. >> flights from europe have brought this new super toxic strain of e. coli to the u.s. in 12 countries 2,000 people sick, at least 18 dead. four sick in the u.s. have traveled to germany. >> i'm actually not so content about that. in fact -- >> u.s. clearly could experience an out break similar to the one in europe. once these pathogens develop, they don't go away. >> they discovered what's called e. coli 0104 appears to started in after from coo and evolved into a fast spreading super bug. how it's spreading is unknown. german authorities first blamed spanish cucumbers but test revealed that the bacteria were not the same, so now the mystery deepens. despite a lack of evidence, russia banned european v

statistics show that a single organ donor can save the lives of three seriously ill people. more than 12,000 seriously ill patients are on waiting lists, often for several years. >> a dangerous bacterium has drawn attention to a chronic problem. many peoplee who were infected with a deadldly strain of e. coi inin gerny this year have suffered irreparable kidney damage. about 100 of them are waiting for a new kidney, but there are simply not enough organ donors in germany to meet demand, and organ donation is a sensitive subject. >> how can you imagine it? someonone is declared dead, but they are still allies. i cannot imagine being cut open like that. >> it is not nice for the family members if they know that their loved one's inner organs are gone. >> nonetheless, when surveyed, more than 70% of germans say they are in favor of organ donation, but the majority of people still do not have a donationon car >> it is a sensible thing to do. >> i have never find, -- found the out a donor card. >> some 12,000 people in germany are waiting for an open -- or did. roughly about 1000

20 years working in the tenderloin with poor and homeless people, primarily people who are mentally ill. the services before you are emergency services. what is interesting to me coming here today about the testimony i have heard is that emergency services are over represented. we have the neighborhood emergency response teams in their extremely stylish hard hats. we have the institutional police. the homeless outreach team and hospitality team are both equally emergence services. specifically, we work with people on the street who have no other option. typically, we look for people who have no other option, people locked out of the shelter system either because of high level metal health, substance abuse, or physical injury, or people who for whatever reason cannot it anywhere else. both of these agencies do the work of rescue, and if you cut the funds, no one will be able to pick up the slack. we do not have other support in the system. there is no other group during direct general street outreach in the community to help people get into shelter, and to care, into housing, and into ca

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his illness was first discovered when he was 3 months old. as he grew older, all his muscles degenerated. at the age of 10, murakami started using a wheelchair. walking was just too difficult. he started to think of his wheelchair as part of himself, and tried to find the perfect one to help him live with his illness. this is what got murakami customizing his wheelchair. he worked on his design and structure with only the use of his right hand, which can move slightly. >> translator: at first, i just wanted to ride something cool, something that other people didn't have, but over time, it became a goal, something to keep my going. >> reporter: he also expresses himself through his tattoos. he thinks they depict his struggle with illness, and gives him strength to live. on this day, murakami visits a friend's auto shop to prepare for the motor show. displaying his customized while chair at the show is a new challenge for murakami. he used only the best-looking nuts and bolts. he drills each hole so the imported parts will fit into the japanese

joining the police department and the community together for understanding and service to the mentally ill and their families. the effort being put into the model will not bear fruit if cuts to mental health services continue. proposed cuts of up to 22,0500 bed days for those in crisis while increasing caseloads and closing clinics will make it impossible for the new program to be successful. please make no further cuts to mental health services. >> thank you. >> my name is greg sass.

taste of hell before going there on its way out and hopefully -- syria and the rain and the rest of the ill missions that we come from. [applause] >> tell us what do you foresee for egypt, elections are slated for the fall parliamentary elections. where do you think the future lies for the egyptian revolution? >> let me, allow me to say a couple of things first. >> go right ahead. >> before we go back to egypt. [laughter] you have a very good voice. you should sing it. in your son's wedding. [laughter]

ptsd is not just an illness that haunts the mind, it affects the entire body. former congressman patrick kennedy now a healthcare advocate was on hand for today's announcement. >> for many of our soldiers the war is just beginning. the question is, are we going be there for them just as they were there for us?

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when people first get ill, they think, "oh, it's something i ate last night." they don't think, "oh, it's something i drank last night." narrator: the milwaukee incident pointed out the potential vulnerability of our drinking water infrastructure in controlling the spread of illness. biedrzycki: it's incumbent upon us to try to stay ahead of the curve, but it's very, very difficult. there's always another bug on the horizon. narrator: in 2008, the associated press reported that water quality testing across the nation uncovered trace amounts of pharmaceutical compounds in the drinking water supplies of millions of americans. the health effects of these low levels of medications diluted in our water are still being determined. but these findings further illustrate the fundamental relationship of infrastructure to health. the quality of water plays a significant role in public health. but reliable quantities of water play a significant role in public safety. [ sirens ] the water that comes out of the fire hydrants is the same water that you are utilizing to drink

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newt gingrich's presidential campaign imploding as his staff quits in the wake of an ill-timed greek vacation. is his campaign over before it started? >>> weather woes. a major arizona wildfire burning out of control as a deadly heat wave keeps its grip on the south. >>> and "today" exclusive. charla nash, the woman mauled by a chimpanzee has what's called a medical miracle. we're the only ones who will have her amazing story today, friday, june 10th, 2011. who