Two Kennedys are battling it out in Congress over mental health coverage. The House of Representatives passed a bill sponsored by Rep. Patrick Kennedy, a Democrat from Rhode Island, that requires health insurers to cover mental illness treatments as they do physical ailments.
It also sponsors a competing bill in the Senate that gives insurance companies more flexibility. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, today released a state-by-state snapshot of mental health problems, alcohol abuse, substence dependency, and tobacco use in the United States. Some statistics: North Dakota scored lowest in the nation on percentage of citizens using illicit drugs, but it ranks the highest for underage alcohol use.
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