The Churn
Adam Aurand spent nearly a decade of his life stuck in a loop: emergency rooms, psychiatric hospitals, jails, prison, and the streets in and around Seattle.
During that time, he picked up diagnoses of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and schizoaffective disorder. He also used opioids and methamphetamine.
Aurand’s life is an example of what happens to many people who experience psychosis in the US: a perpetual shuffle from one place to the next for visits lasting hours or days or weeks, none of them leading to longer-lasting support.
This week on Reveal, reporters who made the podcast Lost Patients, by KUOW and the Seattle Times, try to answer a question: Why do America’s systems for treating serious mental illness break down in this way?
The answer took them from the present-day streets of Seattle to decades into America’s past.
You can find Lost Patients wherever you get your podcasts:
NPR: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510377/lost-patients
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lost-patients/id1733735613
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1avleoc5U4DA7U37GFPzIH
This is an update of an episode that originally aired in July 2024.
- Support Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow
- Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/weekly
Take our listener survey
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices- Datum:
- Duur:
Gerelateerde podcastafleveringen
/https%3A//f.prxu.org/149/images/331c89b7-9e54-45a2-9b9e-f3ded90ef41e/reveal1400s.jpg)
/https%3A//f.prxu.org/149/3521bd13-9303-42ba-ab70-35f8843627a9/images/def10b6b-faee-4db3-bc31-49cf37e9ca83/Show-Cover_More-To-The-Story.png)
/https%3A//f.prxu.org/149/738e1cb9-9f5c-43ef-b180-120fee2b754e/images/61f7bd28-db6b-4117-856d-0a44f1de98c0/Show-Cover_More-To-The-Story.png)
Meer afleveringen van Reveal
-
Alabama’s Threats to Prosecute Abortion Helpers
In August 2022, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall made a guest appearance on a local conservative talk radio show. It was two months after the US Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade, and abortion was now illegal in Alabama.... -
Nikole Hannah-Jones: Trump Is Erasing Black History
President Donald Trump’s second term has swung a wrecking ball at diversity, equity, and inclusion policies and programs throughout the country. Few writers seem better suited to explain this unique moment in America than Nikole... -
In Fallujah, We Destroyed Parts of Ourselves
It’s been just over 20 years since the Battle of Fallujah, a bloody campaign in a destructive Iraq War that we now know was based on a lie. But back then, in the wake of 9/11, the battlefield was filled with troops who believed in...