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Here and Now for Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Overturning a Louisiana law that allows for the death penalty in cases of child rape, the U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that the death sentence can only be applied when the crime involves the death of another person. The court also dramatically cut the amount of punitive damages in the 1989 Exxon-Valdez oil spill. Our guest is Lyle Denniston of Scotus-Blog-Dot-Com. The West African country of Sierra Leone is one of the poorest in the world. Life expectancy is around 40 years, income inequality is high and the after affects of a recent civil war still reverberate. That war forced more than 15,000 children to fight as soldiers and now many are suffering from depression and anxiety. We speak with Dr. Suzan Song, a psychiatrist working with the Harvard School of Public Health to deliver mental health care to these adolescents. We're used to China as a rising economic giant, but what kind of military power is it? China does have some nuclear weapons, but its military isn't capable
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“…as you say beyond that there are psychiatric institutions devoted just to mental health care. . They also seem to have a shortage but won't that not because you write about a parallel issue. The so called stuck kids these are kids who are stuck in mental health facilities they are well enough to leave but can't get out because of bureaucracy or whatever. You did that problem has been greatly …”
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“…not be able to cope with that without a large infusion of additional resources and fortunately not everybody is going to. Stepped forward to their currencies many cases that go untreated as there aren't that gets some kind of treatment actually. The information in this that it suggested that approximately half. Of those subjects with mental health problems related to the war. Have sought some treatment that really represents an improvement over previous wars -- the condition went largely neglected so that progress has been made. And the army and the VA deserve a substantial amount of credit. Four are bringing posttraumatic stress disorder more into the open net for recognizing -- for educating the public about it and for educating soldiers about it so I …”
“…As things stand right now in terms of the mental health care delivery system is it able to. Handle this amount of people. …”