Dr. John Mariani stresses that rather than thinking about being "an alcoholic or not", it's more important to consider how alcohol may be impacting your life.
. It is essential to continue developing prevention and treatment aimed at reducing prescription drug abuse and possible escalation to more dangerous forms of opiates, said Dr. Patrice Malone.
Ecstasy "needs to be looked at in a very careful and rigorously controlled way to accrue evidence showing what it can do and what its potential liability is," says Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman.
"There's a crescendo of voices saying, 'If you don't do X or Y, you're doing it wrong,'" Dr. Catherine Monk says. The result is "a kind of over-preciousness about motherhood."
Dr. Paul S. Appelbaum said a neuropathological examination is not unreasonable to "see whether it might contribute to our understanding of what occurred.”
Dr. Paul Appelbaum said that “it is so easy to assume that people who behave badly in one way or another can’t help themselves when it may only be the case that they don’t want to help themselves.”
Some consider mental health care reform critical in reducing mass shootings. Dr. Paul Appelbaum said that such statements often come as willful misdirection from politicians and members of the NRA.
