Risk of being killed by police is 16 times greater for those with mental illness

Risk of being killed by police is 16 times greater for those with mental illness http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/10/risk-of-being-killed-by-police-16-times-greater-mental-illness?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Version+CB+thumb&utm_term=142893&subid=13529055&CMP=ema_565b According to a new report, half of the 7.9 million Americans with severe mental illness don’t get necessary care – and are more likely to be harmed A memorial is seen on the sidewalk where a homeless man was […]

AG: Drug dealers should face murder charges

AG: Drug dealers should face murder charges http://www.unionleader.com/article/20151209/NEWS03/151209175 CONCORD — The state Attorney General says his office will begin charging dealers who sell drugs causing an overdose death with second degree murder. Attorney General Joseph Foster told the Joint Task Force for the Response to the Heroin and Opioid Epidemic in New Hampshire Tuesday he […]

40 percent of Montana’s completed suicides involved people with severe medical problems

Montana Pain Patients Rebuttal To: Montana Know Your Dose Statistics December 6, 2015 In 2014 there were 243 completed suicides in Montana: 81% involved Males Almost 25% of completed suicides involved Veterans Most common age group was 55-64 years old, or 51 suicides Approximately 9% of suicides involved Native Americans Often over-looked number is that […]

BUREAUCRAT …”born again” …HEALTH ADVOCATE

Mary Pazdur, 63, Dies of Cancer; What Her Husband Has Learned  By Paul Goldberg The job interview wouldn’t last more than 15 minutes, Richard Pazdur believed. So, on a June morning in 1999, his wife Mary settled down to wait at a restaurant near the FDA buildings alongside Rockville Pike. The restaurant turned out to […]