VOA标准英语2012--Health Experts Ask for New Funds for Mental Health Programs
时间：2018-12-08 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(十二月)
Health Experts Ask for New Funds for Mental Health Programs
In recent years, the U.S. has been racked by a number of mass shootings.
In Tuscon in 2011, Jared Loughner opened fire outside a grocery store, killing 1 six people, injuring 13. Then-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was among the injured.
Last July, 12 people were shot and killed in a Colorado movie theater. Dozens were wounded.
Mass killings 2 have taken place in California, Wisconsin, Washington state and Minnesota. After each shooting, those who knew the killers 3 spoke 4 about their expressions of anger, their feelings of isolation 5, strange behavior or mental illness.
But after the murder of six- and seven-year-olds in Connecticut, many Americans, including President Obama, have called for a review of the U.S. mental health system.
A coalition 6 of mental health and substance abuse experts has written a letter to the president and Congress requesting immediate 7 health policy reforms and new safeguards against random 8 acts of violence.
Psychologist Ron Manderscheid, with the National Association of Counties, leads the coalition. "Only about a third of the people who actually have a mental illness get any care," he noted 9. "Only 10 percent of people with substance abuse conditions ever get any care."
The letter calls for doubling the capacity of public mental health and substance abuse programs, whose budgets have been sharply cut in recent years.
It calls for strengthening programs that promote mental health, training teachers and others to recognize signs of mental illness, and providing early help to those who display signs of mental illness.
"What we’ve learned in mental health is that mental health is not only about people with mental illness," Manderscheid stated. "We’ve taken a much broader perspective here that mental health is not only about the community, but about the community and your family and how these things function for you."
The letter also calls for a ban on semi-automatic assault rifles and large-capacity ammunition 10 clips.
"We think it’s important that we take a position on this and not simply talk about mental health and substance abuse because we view the assault weapons as being a public health problem in the community," explained Manderscheid.
Many gun dealers 11 say sales have spiked 12 in the past few days.
Experts note that people with mental illness are more likely to be the victim of a crime than to commit one. They say the first step toward providing better mental health care in the country is removing the stigma 13 from having a mental illness.
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
- His statement was seen as an allusion to the recent drug-related killings. 他的声明被视为暗指最近与毒品有关的多起凶杀案。
- The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。
- He remained steadfast in his determination to bring the killers to justice. 他要将杀人凶手绳之以法的决心一直没有动摇。
- They were professional killers who did in John. 杀死约翰的这些人是职业杀手。
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- The millionaire lived in complete isolation from the outside world.这位富翁过着与世隔绝的生活。
- He retired and lived in relative isolation.他退休后，生活比较孤寂。
- The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
- Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
- His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
- We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
- The list is arranged in a random order.名单排列不分先后。
- On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查，发现肉变质了。
- The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
- Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
- A few of the jeeps had run out of ammunition.几辆吉普车上的弹药已经用光了。
- They have expended all their ammunition.他们把弹药用光。
- There was fast bidding between private collectors and dealers. 私人收藏家和交易商急速竞相喊价。
- The police were corrupt and were operating in collusion with the drug dealers. 警察腐败，与那伙毒品贩子内外勾结。