The former lawmaker from Rhode Island sees a role for public policy in battling these problems.<\/p>\n
By DAVID COHEN – 05\/26\/2024 05:33 PM EDT<\/p>\n
Kennedy\u2019s new book, written with Stephen Fried, is \u201cProfiles in Mental Health Courage<\/a>,\u201d a title that plays off President John F. Kennedy\u2019s best-selling 1956 book \u201cProfiles in Courage<\/a>,\u201d which focused on gallant senators from John Quincy Adams to Robert Taft.<\/p>\n Patrick Kennedy\u2019s book spotlights people trying to confront a range of personal challenges, as well as those around them.<\/p>\n \u201cOften, in these narratives, we focus on the first person memoir, but we lose sight of all the other people who are affected by their illness,\u201d he told host Dana Bash. \u201cAnd I think that was the consistent theme throughout the book is, we really interviewed all the family members and co-workers, colleagues, because we really don\u2019t have an appreciation for how this illness, which we say is one in four, is really one in one, because it affects everyone around the person who\u2019s suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n Kennedy saw a role for public policy in battling these problems. He lamented that multiple industries have seemingly been given permission to benefit from addiction, including social media.<\/p>\n \u201cAs a nation, the adults are letting the next generation down, because here we are having addiction-for-profit industries<\/strong>,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd it doesn\u2019t just end with social media. Every other ad is from sports betting, and gambling is a major mental health problem. And it\u2019s only going to increase because, like we learned with big tobacco, these companies that make money make money off of getting new subscribers, new people to smoke cigarettes…\u201d<\/p>\n The son of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) added: \u201cDemocrats used to be on the side of taking on corporate, big addiction-for-profit companies. And, unfortunately, I think we\u2019re letting down our next generation by letting that all happen.\u201d<\/p>\n Source: https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/05\/26\/kennedy-addiction-mental-health-00160036<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Patrick Kennedy shines light on mental health, addiction The former lawmaker from Rhode Island sees a role for public policy in battling these problems. By DAVID COHEN – 05\/26\/2024 05:33 PM EDT Kennedy\u2019s new book, written with Stephen Fried, is \u201cProfiles in Mental Health Courage,\u201d a title that plays off President John F. Kennedy\u2019s best-selling\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,161],"tags":[24,3],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-legislation","tag-legislation","tag-mental-health"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}