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| Our mental health system that is prevented from intervening until a judge determines what? |
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| In the past 7 years, there have been 23 shootings committed by what kind of people? |
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| From an epidemiological standpoint, what mental issues do women tend to suffer from. And men? |
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| What are 3 causes that can lead to the development of a mental illness? |
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| What % of Americans will develop at least on mental illness? |
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| Carbon dioxide, by burning fossil fuels, causes the greenhouse effect and global warming. List 4 health problems as results to this. |
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| List 4 things that acid rain damages in our environment. |
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| What was the problem when the Bush Administration created the Clean Skies initiative? |
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| List 4 things that have helped make motor vehicles less polluting to our air. |
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| The clean air act directed the EPA to set standards on 188 air pollutants but what has happened? |
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| What 3 parts of the body does lead damage? |
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| When was lead banned from gasoline? |
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| Ozone, from a public health standpoint, leads to increases in mortality from what 2 diseases? |
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| What part of the body, from a public health standpoint, does sulfur dioxide irritate? |
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| Sulfur dioxide comes from burning sulfur-containing fuels especially what? |
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| From a public health standpoint, what 3 diseases are affected by the amount of particular matter? |
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| Where does particulate matter come from? |
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| The consequences of our failed mental health system is that millions of mentally ill people are not getting treatment and ending up where? |
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| What mental health problem do many shooters suffer from? |
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| How are most people with schizophrenia treated? |
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| Why do people with severe mental illness like schizophrenia stop taking their medications? |
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| From a public health standpoint, of the 7 million schizophrenics in this country, how many are not being treated? |
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| After the mentally ill were released from mental institutions where were hey supposed to go and how were they to be treated? |
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| Most mentally ill inmates will be in jail for several days or weeks and then will be released with a packet of pills and no plan. What then happens from a public health standpoint? |
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| becomes a HUGE public health issue; mass shootings |
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| What did you think of the imminent danger story and what is your solution from a public health standpoint? |
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| I personally think that it's haunting to know that there are some that need treatment that don't get it. A solution could be to promote the awareness of the seriousness of mental health issues and provide healthy treatment options. |
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| What did you think of the imminent danger story and what is your solution from a public health standpoint? |
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| I personally think that it's haunting to know that there are some that need treatment that don't get it. A solution could be to promote the awareness of the seriousness of mental health issues and provide healthy treatment options. |
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| List 4 symptoms of PTSD from the War and the Mind video. |
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| anxiety, anger, flashbacks |
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| What is the major cause of PTSD among soldiers? |
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| death of a fellow soldier close to them |
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| When was PTSD recognized as an injury to be treated? |
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| List 4 treatments for PTSD. |
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| medication, peer group support, psychological support, virtual reality recreations |
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| Describe what type of treatment and methods are used in the Drop the Baggage program. |
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| Therapeutic approach that allows those with deep psychological pain to release it |
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| How does he Drop the Baggage program change the military training soldiers in regard to feelings, and which feelings can they now feel safe to express? |
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| Men were not supposed to feel any emotions except anger, Drop the Baggage allows them to express sorrow, sadness, loss and it's okay to cry |
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| How do the veterans feel about the Drop the Baggage program? |
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| Painful, but worth the effort |
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| In the Vietnam War 58,000 soldiers died from combat, how many have since died from suicide? What other wars have shown more deaths due to suicide due to combat? |
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| 102,000 suicides since; UK Gulf War and UK Falkland War |
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| Of the 30,000 suicides in the US each year, what % are done by our veterans? How many kill themselves a day in the US? |
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| 20% are done by veterans; 22/day |
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| In the US, how many of our veterans are homeless? |
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| After going through the Drop the Baggage program, Wayne feels he has his life back. What does he plan to do now? |
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| He wants to become a firefighter |
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| There is a huge public health scandal with the VA system where it was recently revealed not only are veterans not getting treatment but many have died from not getting what they needed soon enough, what is Congress working on to fix this? |
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| Currently Congress is working to approve a new budget to build several more VA hospitals and to hire doctors to address lack of VA care |
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