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| HELP AMERICA VOTE CAMPAIGN People with Disabilities and the Fall Election Kathleen Hagen, Staff Attorney , Minnesota Disability Law Center Justin Dart throughout his life had a one-liner to cover the issue of voting: "Vote as if your life depends upon it, because it does." Access to voting
is getting a lot of attention in this presidential election because
of the debacle of the 2000 election, especially in Florida. After the
2000 election, Congress passed legislation, signed into law by President
George W. Bush at the end of 2002, called the Help America Vote Act
(HAVA). The intent of this legislation is to make voting accessible
to citizens who have been under-represented and disenfranchised by the
election process in the past. Such citizens include: persons of color,
low income families, single parent families, new citizens to this country, seniors, and persons with disabilities.
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FDA ADVISORY by Chuck Campbell The US Food and
Drug Administration recommends that all patients (children and adults)
beginning treatment with antidepressant drugs especially Selective Serotonin
Uptake Inhibitors (SSRI’s) or when changing their dosage, be closely
monitored for “worsening depression and suicidality,” according to a
March 22 Public Health Advisory. Manufacturers of the drugs Prozac
(fluoxetine), Zoloft (sertraline), Paxil (paroxetine), Luvox (fluvoxamine),
Celexa (citalopram), Lexapro (escitalopram), Wellbutrin (bupropion),
Effexor (velafaxine), Serzone (nefazodone), and Remeron (mirtazapine)
have been asked to include that warning in their labeling. .
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