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Article: NAMI Condemns Trenton Newspaper for 'Roasted Nuts' Headline About Fire at Psychiatric Hospital: Copy Editor's Apology Inadequate; Legal Issues Present; Stigma Reflects 'Devaluation' of People With Mental Illnesses: Newspaper's Institutional Irresponsibility to be Raised With Presidential Commission on July 18th.
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- July 16, 2002
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ARLINGTON, Va. -- The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), the nation's largest organization dedicated to improving the lives of people with mental illness, has expressed "shock and outrage" over a headline in The Trentonian newspaper in Trenton, NJ, for a July 10, 2002 story about a fire at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital -- calling it one of the "worst examples of prejudice and discrimination toward people with mental illnesses in recent memory."
The headline was "Roasted Nuts."
Fortunately, no one was injured or killed in the fire, but the attitude it reflected, no matter how humorously or innocently intended, NAMI said, represents the kind of ...