This correspondence appeared in THE LANCET on Sept 26th. The this is the concluding paragraph. " The Lancet deserves credit for drawing attention to the crucial need for the application of principles of the Black Lives Matter movement to the area of medical publications and for emphasising the need for representativeness of published research, commissioned authors, and profiled individuals to include minorities. Readers will be eager to see how The Lancet translates its anti-racism pledge...

This article comments about nonadherence to COVID-19 behavioral instructions. It should also be a warning about the acceptance of ACEs and the necessary community responses.

“Mental Health Is Political,” a guest essay by Professor Danielle Carr in the New York Times (9.20.2022), asks “What if the cure for our current mental health crisis is not more mental health care?” She argues that what has been called an “’epidemic’ of mental illness” medicalizes what is primarily a social and political problem – that is, it makes it a medical problem to be dealt with through treatment rather than a larger social problem to be addressed through changes in social policy and...