Mental Illness and Brain Disease: Dispelling Myths and Promoting Recovery Through Awareness and Treatment : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, Second Session, June 28, 2006, Volume 4

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Page 59 - Institute: National Heart. Lung and Blood Institute; National Institute on Aging; National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; National Institute on Drug Abuse...
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Page 21 - Health (NIMH), the component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the Department of Health and Human...
Page 4 - I'd like to remind the members of the Subcommittee and our witnesses that this hearing is being broadcast live on the Internet. So please keep that in mind during today's proceedings. I would also like to ask for unanimous consent that all members who wish may have their opening statements entered into the record.
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Page 32 - ... of others. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of those who are in such despair as to want to end them. It is a societal illusion that suicide is rare. It is not rare. Certainly the mental illnesses most closely tied to suicide are not rare. They are common conditions and unlike cancer and heart disease, they disproportionately affect and kill the young.
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