396: Our Mental Health Crisis Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, MD
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 30 January 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The three largest mental health facilities in the USA are Rickers, Cooks Country and LA Twin Towers Jails. The mentally ill have literally been relegated to prisons since there are so few public resources for those in need. This is devastating to the mentally ill, of course, but also to their families, neighbors and communities who are forever impacted.
Listen & Learn:
- How prisons have replaced mental health facilities in the U.S.
- Why the mentally ill are treated like criminals
- The real cost of addiction
- Why public policy needs to be more compassionate
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Dr. Rosenberg is a psychiatrist with a specialty is addiction medicine at Upper East Health. He’s the author of Infidelity and his newest book, Bedlam: An Intimate Journey into America’s Health Crisis.
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| 0:00.0 | So the three largest mental health facilities in the US are Rikers, Cooks County, and LA Twin Towers jails. |
| 0:10.0 | That's right, prisons, prisons in the US have become the largest mental health facilities by default because over the past 50 years |
| 0:18.0 | The country has slowly but surely gotten rid of mental health facilities and they've been replaced with the ever growing |
| 0:24.5 | prison population. 2.2 million people in US prisons, the largest prison population in the |
| 0:29.9 | world. These prisons are weird. They're semi-privatized there's lots of violence |
| 0:33.4 | lots of drugs lots of gangs it's the strangest thing in the world they're not |
| 0:38.1 | cheap either it's tons and tons of money being dumped into a system that doesn't work. |
| 0:42.6 | Nobody thinks it works. |
| 0:43.9 | Semi-private, so people are actually profiting from the prisons. |
| 0:47.8 | It's a really wacky system, and there's lots of people trying to fix this. |
| 0:51.3 | It's a very easy problem to ignore. These prisons and these |
| 0:53.8 | jails tend to be in semi-remote locations. So it's pretty easy to go your whole life without running |
| 0:58.8 | into one of them. I lived near a prison at one point. It was a very weird environment and really quickly you |
| 1:04.8 | understand that everyone working in and around the system knows that it's broken but |
| 1:08.9 | nobody knows how to fix it. My guest on this week's podcast is Dr. Rosenberg, a psychiatrist he |
| 1:14.9 | specializes in addiction and mental health and he's got a new book out talking |
| 1:19.8 | specifically about this mental health crisis that has been relegated to prisons and how we can |
| 1:25.2 | potentially unwind it. |
| 1:26.7 | If you're new here, I'm Lucas Rockwood, I'm the host of the show. |
| 1:29.4 | I am a yoga teacher, a trainer, I am a nutritional coach, I'm a father. First and foremost, I'm a |
| 1:34.3 | student and I use this podcast as a way for me to go out in the world, find experts and |
| 1:38.7 | leaders and big thinkers and yoga teachers and meditation teachers and |
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