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7. "I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man." Primo Levi
Mon Jun 14, 2021, 09:49 AM
Jun 2021

That crosses the line, more like dances over it, to sheer sadism. This country is drowning in untreated mental health. Mental health has never had parity with physical health and physical health is at the mercy of "for profit." It is not a prevention model, it is a for profit model. Abuse and trauma are far more pathological than smoking, obesity, or cancer. Yet, here we are. The foster system is the most failed government program in our history, the foster care to prison pipeline is well known. Historically, the biggest advances in medicine came during times of war. PTSD was never even an actual diagnosis until the Vietnam era, and if our government had it's way, it still would not be. Throw away people cost nothing. 🙄 Let's ignore the fact that it costs society so much more. Because seeing drug addiction, alcoholism, and social pathology as a personal failure-not as a person attempting to medicate themselves makes it easy to do nothing but collect a paycheck for "doing something." Like Mr. I Do Not Know.

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