Guns Are Blamed, but What About Prescription Drugs? Prozac: Warning Labels and Side Effects Moira Dolan, M.D., Medical Accountability Network. Likely due to pressure from the pharmaceutical industry-heavy advertisers in all media-the national debate on the epidemic of teen violence has ignored the widespread use of prescription drugs in teens and particularly those who have committed monstrous acts. However, the drug-violence link is frighteningly common. Fifteen-year-old Shawn Cooper of Notus, Idaho, fired a shotgun at students and school staff. According to his stepfather, he had been taking an SSRI. Thirteen-year-old Chris Fetters of Iowa killed her favorite aunt. She was taking Prozac. Kip Kinkel, a 15-year-old youth, went on a rampage in Oregon. He first shot and killed his parents, spent the night with the bodies (characteristic of the dissociative reaction these drugs often cause), then killed two and wounded 22 of his fellow students at Thurston High School. He was taking Prozac. This is just a small sample and doesn't include adults.

Everyone should be entitled to counseling/therapy. I have good health insurance coverage by a top provider in my state. I recently experienced a very grief stricken and painful divorce. I sought out a therapist's help, but a few days after attending the session was told my health insurance would not cover it and was charged $80. I am a college graduate with an average household income, but as a newly single parent and debt from the marriage and divorce I could not afford to continue. I have managed through faith and family, but some people don't have that. And even if they do....they could be doing a lot better. Not everyone has someone to talk to. Just think if insurance covered therapy...there could be less divorce, less grief, less suffering, less isolation. And maybe, just maybe less violence like we saw at Sandy Hook Elementary. Mental health is just as important as going to the dentist or getting a physical. It impacts all aspects of our bodies, lives and affects others. As a country we should take care of our people and everyone should have access to professional help.

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Supporting having the conversations about issues & concerns that impact our culture, our society and our lives and how to implement an action plan addressing the core issues, concerns & various problems that exists in our society today. Giving millions of people in America an opportunity to voice their concerns; share their thoughts, feelings, experiences & share their ideas regarding possible solutions and how this would impact our culture & society overall.

In the wake of the Newton Connecticut Massacre,it is my opinion that the general public needs to be more informed about mental health. My oldest brother (now deceased) was mentally ill,he was ostracised because of this. He has been deceased for 41 years. There have been great strides made in this area since then. However,maybe greater awarness may have stopped the tragedy in Newton from happening.

Like many seniors, I'm now in the "donut hole", meaning I pay full price for my medications. If Medicare used its huge purchasing power to negotiate lower drug costs (the VA pays 40% less for drugs), many seniors would escape this very expensive situation.

GMO's are now an almost mainstream topic, as it should be. President Obama while campaigning, stated he was for GMO labeling, and now has ducked away from this issue. The issue of GMO's is of far greater importance to every human than all the other distracting subjects debated to exhaustion, everyday by the media in the United States. What is more important than knowing; what is in our foods and what our President's opinion is on this?

Where we have failed both the children and the adults who need assisted living for mental illness, and have few if any specific hospitals geared to helping these disabled Americans, and as it this mental illness disability has led to horrific actions by certain individuals who need this aid, this petition is for the intervention of our federal government to implement a plan to once again create institutions for these affected Americans. History tells us that it was under Pres. Regean who closed many of these hospitals. Sending into the streets or back to families these institutionalized disabled Americans. Many of these families were unable to cope with the stress of a mentally disabled child or an adults return. Unfortunately these Americans had become victims in those rounds of budget cuts. We can afford and we budget to spend billions on aid for helping women have abortions, killing 1.3 million babies last year, when 20 young innocent children lose their life from the actions of someone who needed to be institutionalized. those anti 2nd amendment advocates cry out for the elimination of the gun. There is no daily prayer for the life loss in abortions not a prayer or a word against abortion killings, accept from pro-Life supporters. The abandonment of federal funded facilities was predicated on the belief that we had discovered drugs capable of making someone disabled - normal or close to it as is our understanding of it. Well we can no longer accept the drug companies position of drugging these disabled people into normality as the answer. Knowing when they commit hideous crimes they had been off of those very prescribed drugs. Americas needs are far greater than to depend on the various institutions that are scattered around the country for aid. Often forcing families to drive hours for help if it is to even become available. We need state run facilities capable of handling these patients in a manner befitting what they would receive at any private institution. When we are faced with the destruction these mentally disabled individuals cause by gun usage, it affects us all. As Americans we jump quickly to one side or the other. A side that benefits our desires and beliefs, as once again we leave behind the real culprit. The need to make help available to those who need it the most, Americas mentally disabled.

As a Clinical Social Worker, I'm deeply saddened by the leaders of our country to ignore Mental Health Issues. We need funding now!! Teachers tell us they evaluate and spot children with emotional issues early in school, yet they and their families are not treated due to funding. We cannot ignore these issues any longer. I'm deeply disappointed with the National Association for Social Workers that they, too, are not outspoken about the work that Clinical Workers can provide. Please sign this petition to have your voice heard!!!

Mercury is the 2nd most toxic poison on Earth. WHY would government agencies endorse it is OK to use in things like vaccines , flu shots and amalgams? We excrete the mercury into wastewater and take the Earth and it's creatures with us down the path of death and destruction. I am being poisoned to death by my amalgams, but can't afford the $8,000. to get them out of my mouth. I have children not ready to be without me.

There are so many tragedies in the United States committed by people with recognizable mental health illnesses that may have been avoided if there was better access to mental health services. I know if I hadn't gotten the help I needed at a young age I would be far worse than I am now, and for all I know I could have snapped and taken someone out with me when I had the desire to die years ago. Currently I go to a state run clinic for my medication and psychiatric services but every year there are cuts and that means less doctors and less staff to help those who are truly in need of services, and I worry each year if I'm going to be able to continue getting treatment for my mental health illness. While we need gun control and other things to protect people better, it does no good if there are not better systems in place to help people who may need the help or a psychiatrist or a therapist or medication to help keep them sane and functioning members of society.

Dozens of peer-reviewed studies show that sodium fluoride is a deadly neurotoxin that attacks the central nervous system and leads to a multitude of serious health problems. This fact has been covered up by a collusion of government and industry who have reaped financial windfalls while illegally mass medicating the public against their will.