Lunatics

Submitted by Dave (Canada), Jul 13, 2014 at 20:46

These Press TV debates remind me of the acute shortages we face in the West of psychiatric hospital beds. The current numbers of Americans in psychiatric hospitals number in the 40 thousands, around the same as the mid-nineteenth century. I don't know what the numbers are in Iran, but it could be worse.

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