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Identifying And Treating Severe Mental Illness

The vast majority of mentally ill people are not a danger to themselves or society, but for those who are, treatment is critical. Diane and her guests discuss the challenge of identifying and treating severe mental illness.

Guests

Dr. Liza Gold

clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical Center and vice president of the American Academy of Psychiatry & The Law.

Pete Earley

father of an adult son diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, author of “Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness,” former Washington Post reporter and author of several others books, including “The Hot House.”

Dr. E. Fuller Torrey

president of Treatment Advocacy Center.

Leslie Weisman

client services entry bureau chief at Arlington Community Services Board.

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upwithchris:

The Senate has become a much less productive place than it once was, due in no small part to Republican abuse of the filibuster. In the 1950s as much as 25 percent of bills introduced in the Senate were eventually passed. By 2012, that rate was down to a record low of just 2.8 percent, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.

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$upwithchris: A new study by federal scientists has tied the controversial method of natural gas extraction known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” to a skyrocketing number of earthquakes in the Colorado-New Mexico region. The study, presented to the American Geophysical Union this week by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey, found a stunning increase in seismic activity in the Raton Basin on Colorado and New Mexico after 2001, when companies began injecting wastewater fluid from natural gas drilling into the ground there. Between 1970 and 2001, there were just five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater in the area. From 2001 to 2011, that number spiked to 95 earthquakes, an increase of 1,900 percent. The federal researchers concluded that “the majority, if not all of the earthquakes since August 2001 have been triggered by the deep injection of wastewater related to the production of natural gas from the coal-bed methane field here,” according to an abstract of the paper posted online by the American Geophysical Union.$

upwithchris:

A new study by federal scientists has tied the controversial method of natural gas extraction known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” to a skyrocketing number of earthquakes in the Colorado-New Mexico region.

The study, presented to the American Geophysical Union this week by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey, found a stunning increase in seismic activity in the Raton Basin on Colorado and New Mexico after 2001, when companies began injecting wastewater fluid from natural gas drilling into the ground there. Between 1970 and 2001, there were just five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater in the area. From 2001 to 2011, that number spiked to 95 earthquakes, an increase of 1,900 percent.

The federal researchers concluded that “the majority, if not all of the earthquakes since August 2001 have been triggered by the deep injection of wastewater related to the production of natural gas from the coal-bed methane field here,” according to an abstract of the paper posted online by the American Geophysical Union.

Source: upwithsteve

Sea Level Rising Much Faster Than U.N. Projections : The Two-Way : NPR

A new peer-reviewed study by climate scientists finds the rise in sea level during the past two decades has been 60 percent faster than predictions from the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The scientists also found that IPCC’s estimates for warming temperatures was just right.

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