Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl

Ackeson podcast. Today, the illogical backlash amid efforts to fix America's health

crisis and a second topic, mass killers may be telling us something, but are we listening?

I have two thought-provoking topics to address today. Both of them will have print

versions on my free substack at Cherylacason.substack.com in case it's easier for you to share that

way. One of the topics is what I see is a cry of desperation over what HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy

Jr. is doing in terms of changes and reforms at CDC, FDA, and so on, that in a few minutes.

But the other topic, and the one I'm going to address first

has to do with something that occurs to me every time we have yet another mass killing.

In the wake of the tragic event at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, that was August

27th, where two children were murdered and 17 others injured, the public discourse afterwards

often zeroes in on guns, manifestos, and societal failures. But amid the clamor, a critical

question seems to have faded from view. What role might legal or illegal drugs and toxic exposures play

in the volatile mix that drives some individuals to violence? Now, for years, I remember reporters

would routinely probe the medical histories of the perpetrators, and it often revealed patterns

of psychiatric drug use. But today, have you noticed, that line of

inquiry is largely vanished. Even as evidence mounts that certain medications carry warnings for

suicidal thoughts and aggressive behavior, and we know for a fact that environmental toxins can

disrupt brain function. Ignoring these

factors as we examine these mass killings, it not only overlooks potential triggers, but misses

opportunities to prevent future tragedies through better data collection and analysis.

Some of you may not remember, but in the late 1990s and the early 2000s,

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