Patrick J. Kennedy: “the whole system of classification in my opinion needs desperately to be reformed.”

there are hundreds of thousands of my fellows in America who are dying because their medical system does not know they have an underlying addiction because it doesn't show in the EMR that they have been treated for addiction.

Congress and the country have really never appropriated the necessary resources for this crisis.

cutting states' critical funding at a time when they are needed most is wrong.

we are in denial as a Nation about mental health.