I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and PhD student in Health Psychology. My two siblings killed themselves in 1989 and 1993. I want mandatory mental health education and medication side effect training for parents and teachers.I am tired of seeing adults suffer because since they were kids they have been victims of misdiagnosis and over-medication- especially those diagnosed with ADD/ADHD. I am tired of seeing kids not graduate from high school because they are getting high everyday before school and parents are not being held responsible. I want funding for my "Just Don't Do It" (justdontdoit.us) campagne so that I can teach people what to ask their doctors and DEMAND that suicide prevention be a TOP priority when going to school.

My daughter is disabled (so am I). She needs In-Home health care (a "growth industry" of mostly poor, mostly undereducated, mostly women) who are labeled "adult baby sitters". Training has been cut or is non-existent, few states require training or certification, workers don't even have to pass a health test to prepare meals for your loved one. Urge training, health certification, and bonding, for your loved one's safety and for the protection of the workers.

Legalize marijuana for medical purposes, similar to the Colorado laws.

My clients have been personally affected.

Legalizing it. I have RA & can get pain meds, but then I go from bed to couch to bed! I finally quit the 3 serious cancer drugs they had me on & & down to 1/3 the dosage of steriods. The pain meds numb me & take away any ambition. I take a few hits off a joint & my mind gets to working on other things besides my pain & discomfort & next thing I know I am actually getting something done. It's like hitting you thumb with a hammer. The more you stare at it the more it hurts, but put it off to the side & you don't think about it as much. Still hurts but you can do other things! I am 62 years old & my high on life now is having a good day pain wise & trying to get some enjoyment of living! Or your way I sit on the counch like zombie & watch TV & go to bed & do it all over tomorrow. Is that a way to live? It takes the stiffness & pain of joint damage away to where I can do things without being on a narcotic!!!! It's not like I am abusing drugs, getting wild & crazy, I just want to live out what years I have left & be able do manage my pain & enjoy some sort of life! I have proven to my Doctor that I very seldom use the Oxycodone I was prescibed 2 years ago. In fact that prescription has expired & I still have many left. I only use them when I get tired of the pain & need some rest!! Or would you rather see me taking one every 4 hours? That's no life!!!

Governor Nathan Deal refuses to accept federal funds to expand Medicaid. 600,000 Georgians will now go without healthcare. Tell Gov. Deal to put Georgia citizens before ideology!

Chiropractors provide essential health care services to the people of New Mexico, and the rest of the country, offering primary contact and primary care services within the nationally and internationally accepted chiropractic model of care as a drugless, non-surgical approach to health care. If you believe that prescription drugs do not have a place in Chiropractic care, please help voice your concern by signing this petition and voice your vote "against" SB 471

I AM A VETERAN ON DISABILITY FROM CHRONIC PAIN & GO THROUGH PURE HELL EVERYDAY

Anti-depressants are illegal all over the world because of their close ties to both psychoses and suiciidality. Why are Colorado doctors and nurse practitioners still able to prescribe junk medicine (see e.g. Whitaker, Robert, Anatomy of an Epidemic, New York: Crown Publishers 2009).

My father lived a full and vigorous life of 84 years, but he was not allowed to die in peace. Even in the excellent hospice facility he chose for his final days, he was forced to die in agony because the law didn't allow his doctor or care-givers to administer enough morphine to end his terrible suffering. Instead, very slowly, over a period of days, he drowned in his own body fluids. No-one should ever have to suffer that way. No family should ever have to watch helplessly as their loved one passes from this world in such pain. We don't even make our pets endure such needless anguish. Montanans must be given the option to die with dignity. Terminally ill patients must have the right to alleviate unnecessary suffering in their last days. We must pass SB220.

I suffer from Post Herpetic Neuralgia, a condition where an over-active nerve in the left side of my face causes me moderate to severe pain on a daily basis. I tried medical marijuana the last time I was in California and was able to cut down my Oxycodone intake by half! However, there are folks in this state who suffer quite a bit more than I do and it is a crime that we have no legal access to a very helpful remedy!

The TOTAL LACK OF PROPER CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH AIDS/hiv