Dr. Thomas Insel is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who served as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health from 2002-2015. In December 2023 he noted that since the Covid pandemic 38% more Americans were receiving some type of mental health care.
“We are facing three distinct crises, which partially overlap,” Insel contends. The first is a youth mental health crisis, the second is a crisis of serious mental illnesses like bipolar disorder, which particularly affects the homeless and the incarcerated, and the third is “the ongoing substance abuse disorder (SUD) or addiction crisis….”
Paul Wood, TCW Defending Freedom
Zach Halaschak, The Washington Examiner
Eva Terry, Deseret News
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