Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday May 2 2004 — A13 Beer quota set at giant block party Rflemfal Continued from A1 MADISON Wis (AP) — Police set a beer quota on an annual spring block party that draws thousands of drunken revelers but Saturday's paitiers weren’t exactly tapped out: The limit was four kegs per household The keg crackdown for the annual Mifflin Street block party near the University of Wisconsin still gives each apartment between 700 and 800 beers And the block is e lined with houses divided into apartments giving some addresses as many as 16 kegs But police said what sounds like a lot of beer is much less than what has been available in the past Last year some houses had as many SO kegs and were essentially operating unlicensed taverns out of their kitchens and front porches acting Madison Police Assistant Chief Luis Yudice said The Mifflin Street event started 35 years ago and is part of the campus culture that second on put The Princeton Review’s national “party school” rankings in 2003 behind only the University of Colorado in Boulder Police LL Sherrie Strand said early Sunday that about 210 people had been arrested mostly for such violations as disorderly conduct and carrying open intoxicants and there were no major problems Police warned that violators’ parties could be shut down but Dan Hudson the party’s coordinator said few of his neighbors were adhering to foe limit wood-fram- kill himself by deliberately crashing head-o- n into their vehicle in Logan Canyon “He wasn't trying to kill anyone else” Thad Carlson said “He was just trying to end the pain in his head” After the crash Scott Carlson fled the scene on foot before jumping in front of a semi truck less than a mile away but miraculously sur- vival Thad Carlson said he tried for years both before and after the incident to get Scott the help he needed His efforts finally paid off when a videotape he made of Scott’s behavior at home caught the attention of mental health officials Scott Carlson who was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the two deaths now lives in a group home for the mentally ill in Rochester NY Another local woman who called the newspaper in response to the letter said she spent five years trying to get help for her schizophrenic son before he finally did enough to warrant police intervention DneaDttlhi The woman whom The Herald Journal has chosen not to identify for privacy reasons because her son still lives in Logan said he was arrested for battery and ordered by a judge to take medication after punching ha in the face In his letter Nelson Phillips was critical of Bear River Mental Health Services Inc the primary care provider in Cache Valley for what he considered insufficient response to his family’s pleas for help However others say the real problem runs much deeper Carlson cited a lack of fending for mental health treatment due to the stigma attached to neurological diseases wherein society places the blame on the afflicted and expects them to pull themselves up by the bootstraps and recover Scientific studies meanwhile clearly indicate that mental illness is hardwired and results from chemical imbalances in the brain ova which die afflicted have no control “The sad thing is that most of it is highly treatable” Carl- -' son said imitteirveinittion dOTiiauiOlt health services The Logan Police Department was the first in the state to send officers to Memphis Tenn for a national training program on mental health issues The department now has 15 officers who are capable of responding to mental health emergencies But Vernon said that while statistics indicate there are up to 1 5000 people in Cache Valley who suffer from some form of mental illness there are only five doctors qualified to prescribe appropriate med- ications The result is that mentally ill people often end up floating in and out of jail not gating the treatment they need Vernon said But the training program has allowed police to include suspicion of mental illness on reports ensuring that judges and attorneys are aware of the nature of the problem “That’s where we’re trying to stop — the back and forth the back and forth from jail” he said Local support group The local chapter of the National AWance for the Mentally Id convenes at 7 pm on the third Wednesday of every month for a support meeting and 8 pm for an educational meeting at the North Logan Library 475 E 2500 North The group also offers a y educational dads as wel as numerous other outreach programs related to mental Mness For more Information cafl Wendy SJmmone at 787-345-3 FamBy-frFamfl- Mick Patdnson president and CEO of Bear River Mental Health Services Inc said his agency is bound not only by funding limitations but v also by state and federal statutes Pattinson stressed that it’s not a crime to be mentally ill and his agency’s efforts to intervene are sometimes thwarted by mentally ill people’s civil liberties Utah law concerning hospital commitment of the mentally ill was improved slightly last yea when legislators changed the threshold for intervention from “imminent threat” to “substantial threat” according to Pattinson but some say die change was inconsequential Pattinson said although the numba of commitments hasn’t changed locally since the law was altered there has been a significant increase in the numba of commitments in Salt Lake City “We didn't quite succeed in getting it where we wanted to” he said of the law “It’s very difficult to get these statutes passed” Pattinson said most of the cases his agency sees are referrals from doctors at Logan Regional Hospital’s Behavioral Health Unit or from law enforcement Logan police officer Chad Vernon who oversees the department’s mental health crisis intervention program agreed that the red problem is a lack of funding for mental ' - Fine Estate Diamonds UW-Madis- on The Palmer Collection No Appointment Hmrcutting CUTS $1(m CUTS $ooo Men age 65 Bddnmhn andoMar U 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