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Your support makes all the difference.On March 11, The Daily Beast, a news and opinion blog, created America's Craziest Cities list by analyzing and measuring 57 urban US cities by psychiatrists per capita, eccentricity, stress and drinking levels.
The Daily Beast's system for ranking all 57 cities could have produced different outcomes if not linking alcohol intake and eccentricity as indicators of "crazy," however the list reveals insights into supply/demand of mental health professionals, Gallup-Healthway 2008 poll on stress and emotional/mental well-being of Americans city-by-city and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System 2008 alcohol intake prevalence.
The top five ‘craziest' US cities are:
Cincinnati, Ohio
Psychiatrists per capita: 31 out of 57
Stress: 5 out of 57
Eccentricity: 12 out of 57
Drinking: 17 (tie) out of 57
San Francisco, California
Psychiatrists per capita: 1
Stress: 57
Eccentricity: 2
Drinking: 11 (tie)
Providence, Rhode Island
Psychiatrists per capita: 6
Stress: 38
Eccentricity: 21
Drinking: 7
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Psychiatrists per capita: 10
Stress: 33 (tie)
Eccentricity: 29
Drinking: 1 (tie)
Las Vegas; Nevada
Psychiatrists per capita: 55
Stress: 9
Eccentricity: 9
Drinking: 1 (tie)
The top five ‘sane' US cities are:
Salt Lake City, Utah
Psychiatrists per capita: 36
Stress: 55
Eccentricity: 56
Drinking: 49 (tie)
Fort Worth, Texas
Psychiatrists per capita: 54
Stress: 47
Eccentricity: 22
Drinking: 54
Charlotte, North Carolina
Psychiatrists per capita: 43
Stress: 36
Eccentricity: 53
Drinking: 42 (tie)
Washington, DC
Psychiatrists per capita: 25
Stress: 47
Eccentricity: 52
Drinking: 48
Hartford, Connecticut
Psychiatrists per capita: 57
Stress: 39
Eccentricity: 54
Drinking: 17 (tie)
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