“The biggest asylum in the United States is the Los Angeles County Jail," said David Goldbloom, Senior Medical Advisor at CAMH. "There’s about 20,000 inmates and about 2,000 of them are severely mentally ill."
     Settling in by the window of a French bistro along the strip of Harbord Street that caters to Toronto’s academic gentry, the psychiatrist David Goldbloom refuses a glass of wine without a second thought. Frankly, he looks appalled at the suggestion, as he will soon be seeing patients at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, where the lingering odour of even the most delicate grape could cause untold problems.
     And yet, given the daunting task before him as the new chair of the Mental Health Commission of Canada, whose national strategy launches on Tuesday, one imagines the man could use a drink. [Taken from much longer and detailed commentary by Joseph Brean. The National Post. May 6, 2012. Find it here: news.nationalpost.com]