Patrick J. Kennedy: “There should be a central clearinghouse for--essentially, a database for issues and complaints that arise.”

Both APAs, my fellow panelist Patrick Kennedy, and the unified mental health and substance use disorder community championed the parity law in 2008, but it has failed to end discriminatory health insurance practices.

It is prejudice and discrimination to think that if a person has a mental illness, they are not capable of functioning.

it is shocking. Literally as shocking as it is that we don't address mental health in our healthcare system is that we don't address mental health in our education system.

I think, obviously, when you look at the fact that so many of our jails are filled with people with mental illnesses and addictions, that clearly a better response than occupying police time would be to make sure that proper first…