Patrick J. Kennedy: “cutting Medicaid by $800 billion, would that strengthen or hinder those services?”

We need help from Congress to remove prejudice and discrimination and treat it just like all other forms of prejudice and discrimination.

We wouldn't expect any less if there were any other illness. And yet we settled for less than 20 percent of Americans getting any of that today in this country.

this needs to be a priority. And it will be an enormous protective factor for kids, especially since we are seeing suicide rates skyrocket.

Denial is the big issue here. And we all know growing up in families where there is alcoholism and addiction or mental illness that we don't like to talk about these things.