Patrick J. Kennedy: “We need to support an aggressive agenda for Indian education because the current landscape is not meeting the challenge.”

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

We keep these illnesses secret. And these illnesses being secret are the reason why they are exacerbated.

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.

Because I think any firefighter will tell you, these days especially, they spend more of their time trying to do first response to overdoses and mental health crisis than they do putting out fires.