Stigma Is Being Used as a Political Weapon: Reject It

• By: Michael B. Friedman, LMSW Columbia University School of Social Work
• July 14th, 2022
• homicides, mass shootings, mental illness, opinion, politics, stigma, Summer 2022 Issue
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I and many others have said it before but, as recent events make clear, we will have to say it again and again and again: Mental illness is not the cause of mass murder in the United States. The continuing assertion by the political right that it is has become a core element of the vituperative...