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Originally Posted by graciegirl
comorbidity of mental illness and drug use - Bing
There were approximately 40,000 gun deaths in U.S. in 2018.
There were approximately 70,000 deaths in U.S. from drug overdose in 2018.
The criteria for mental illness is very broad and may or may not include OCD, anxiety, AHCD and other illnesses not deemed as severe as other mental illnesses that may trigger hospitalization and long term treatment by a mental health specialist.
I don't think anyone, at this point can really say with authority what caused either of these young men to do what they did and what if anything that could have been done to stop it before it happened. I would like to know more about the families of the shooters, the home environment of the shooters. Did they rebel against what they were taught, or did they take on the family values? What made them SO ANGRY? What made them so cold hearted to take so many innocent lives of people they did not know as well as the one family member in the case of the Dayton shooter? I would like to know the "whole story" before I can decide what I think is the primary causes of these events and what if anything we can do to change things.
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Since one of these mass killers is still alive we will find out quite a lot.
I interviewed at the University of Texas at El Paso library for a law librarian position back in November or maybe early December of 2001. They paid to fly me back-and-forth and for a night at a hotel and a few meals.
I found the people of UTEP quite friendly and the city of El Paso was attractive.
I was only there about 24 hours or less than that. Did meet a bunch of librarians at UTEP and the UTEP President and other university administrators.
The University of Texas at El Paso does have a lot of Hispanics attending as well as in their staff.