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Keeping Firearms Out Of The Hands Of The Mentally IllThe New York Times reports on the challenge of keeping firearms out of the hands of the mentally ill, while The Wall Street Journal explores the difficulty finding treatment for many people because of a lack of providers in many places.The New York Times: When The Right To Bear Arms Includes The Mentally IllThe Russo case highlights a central, unresolved issue in the debate over balancing pub
hydro flask lic safety and the Second Amendment right to bear arms: just how powerless law enforcement can be when it comes to keeping firearms out of the hands of people who are mentally ill. Connecticuts law giving the po
stanley mug lice broad leeway to seize and hold guns for up to a year is actually relatively strict. Most states simply adhere to the federal standard, banning gun possession only after someone is involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility or designated as mentally ill or incompetent after a court proceeding or other formal legal process. Relatively few with mental health issues, even serious ones, reach this point Luo and McIntire, 12/21 .The Wall Street Journal: For The Mentally Ill, Finding Treatment Grows HarderAs hard as it might be to acknowledge having a mental-health illness, finding professional help can be even harder. Last year, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, almost 91 million adults lived in areas like here where shortages of mental
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Friday, Jun 19 2009BBC Examines River Blindness Program In Sub-Saharan Africa BBC examines a campaign in sub-Saharan Africa that is helping to distribute drugs to prevent onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness 聳 a disease caused by a parasite that is spread from human to human by the black fly, which once flourished along river beds where there is fast-flowing water. According to the BBC, Some 35 million people are currently infected with river blindness, and about 140 million people in Africa are at risk of infection. The article details the evolution of the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control APOC that b
stanley at egan in 1995 with the goal of eliminat[ing] river blindness as a disease of public health importance in Africa 聳 from the challenges associated with obtaining the drug ivermectin that could prevent the disease and the formation of a huge distrib
owala canada ution network required to ensure that people received the medication on a regular basis, BBC writes. Since the start of the program, more than 600,000 community distributors have joined the campaign to eradicate the scourge of river blindness across sub-Saharan Africa, and drugs to prevent the disease have been distributed to over 54 million people, the BBC writes.
stanley quencher The success of the large-scale community program is causing excitement in African medical circles, because it may now be used to distribute other drugs to fight malaria or HIV/AIDS 聳 and to hand out bed nets that prevent people bein
