- not a politically correct thing to acknowledge, but there is ample data to support that, that unmedicatedhey are more dangerous than the average population. however, we're not saying certainly that bring back the -- the asylums at the same scale they were in the '50s, you know, certainly not. we'd like a lot of these folks to be living independently and many of them can if they take their medication. the problem is that maybe half -- up to half of all people with schizophrenia don't even know that they're sick so they don't even know they have to take it. and this would be a legal mechanism for enforcing them taking this medication so they can live independently and safely. c-span: wh -- what's the politics of publishing this book? it's put out by perseus group, the -- basic books. are they known to publish a certain kind of book? did you have any trouble getting it out, imean... >> guest: no. c-span: ...' cause it's coming from the point of view it is? >> guest: no, in fact, the editor i had, j -- joanne miller had been after me since, gee, '93 to write a book. i used to have a column in