A new look at America’s mental health system
The conversation’s shifting around mental health care in the United States. The Wonkblog’s Sarah Kliff outlines what the changes might look like amid a renewed government focus on curbing gun violence and identifying public safety threats.
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1) Conduct a study to determine what drugs were being prescribed to people who have committed suicide and either prohibit them or require doctors to limit their use.
2) Look for alternatives to mental health treatment that does not include long term use of medications.
3) Don't allow law enforcement or military to use any weapons against civilians that are banned.
According to Neil Willner (President Consolidated Insurance) , "You could probably fit anyone walking on the street into one of the mental disorders from the DSM's (The Diagnositic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) somehow."
My sympathies are with the Newtown victims and their parents but one source I hope you will look at is the on-line video "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death (FULL VERSION)" You may think this video has a sensational nature but in the historical light of exploitation, racism, cruelty, torture, and human extermination justified by psychiatry, maybe it should be.