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mental illness and drugs

theMENT.                                 MENTAL  ILLNES AND DRUGS IN FLORIDA: the MENTAL ILLNESS:  Miami-Dade County is home to the largest percentage of people with serious mental illnesses (SMI; e.g., schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression) of any urban community in the United States. Roughly 9.1% of the population (more than 210,000 individuals) experience SMI, yet fewer than 13% of these individuals receive care in the public mental health system. As a result, law enforcement and correctional officers have increasingly become the lone responders to people in crisis due to untreated mental illnesses. On any given day, the Miami-Dade County Jail houses approximately 1,200 individuals with SMI. This represents approximately 17% of the total inmate population, and costs taxpayers more than $50 million annually. The County jail now serves as the largest psychiatric facility in the State of Florida. CORRELATION BETWEEN MENTAL ILLNESS AND DRUGS: Addiction is a common
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How can we solve the algae problem?

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The problem is the pollution of the water Something that we all need to think about is water, because water is vital for human life but not only for humans but every single living specie. If we pollute our water we would not just have nothing left to drink, but we would also damage our principal oxygen producer because our oceans produce 70% of the total oxygen we breathe. And let's be realistic if we can't breathe, we would no longer be able to live in planet Earth, which means that all living things would disappear from the Planet.  But how can we change this, that's the critical question that we all have to ask ourselves. But what about voting? Isn't voting something we do to take action over the things we need and want for our community and our country in general. So let's go out there and vote for the people we think are going to change this issues. 
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Mental Health Issues

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Mental Health Issues and Voting Unfortunately not everyone with mental illness can vote. The United States excludes any individual with Psychiatric disabilities from voting. Any other person without the above-mentioned disability that has a mental illness could be assisted by anyone of their choice to vote.   Anyone who could vote should because as everyone is saying in today's time your vote counts.
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Service Learning

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Service Learning In our Service learning session we help the Manny Diaz campaign. This campaign was a Republican based campaign in the race for our state senators. For the 10 hours we went around the beautiful city of Hialeah and some outskirt cities and asked people if they were going to be voting and encouraging people to vote this election. On some of our stops we had some rude people that blew us off and we had those that supported what we were doing. Another activity that we participated in was making phone calls. We did the exact same thing as mentioned before but on the phone instead. I had some interesting phone calls to say the least. I was surprised to see that the people we called really had not yet researched the people running for office with only a week left before voting started.
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Homelessness in the United States

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Homelessness in the United States 553,742 homeless people live on the streets in the United States. The most homeless population seen in the United States is in New York City, with a total number of 76,501 homeless people. Now in those 553,742 homeless people around 20%-25% have a mental health issue. NonProfitVote is a organization that has came out to help out the homeless. They help all the homeless people sign up to vote to get there vote to count. Did you know, when the homeless become homeless they usually take 1-3 years to get back on their feet and get out of the cycle?   Now a question we all ask ourselves is can the homeless vote? Well, of course, anyone who is a citizen in the United States can vote but need to follow the guidelines that the states have in place to be able to vote. Some guidelines that are statewide is that the homeless need to have an address in the city they are voting in. The states usually allow for the addresses to be located at
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Why is "Red Tide" so dangerous?

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Harmful algae blooms Harmful algal blooms, or HABs, occur when colonies of algae—simple plants that live in the sea and freshwater—grow out of control while producing toxic or harmful effects on people, fish, shellfish, marine mammals, and birds. The human illnesses caused by HABs, though rare, can be debilitating or even fatal. While many people call these blooms 'red tides,' scientists prefer the term harmful algal bloom. One of the best known HABs in the nation occurs nearly every summer along Florida’s Gulf Coast. This bloom, like many HABs, is caused by microscopic algae that produce toxins that kill fish and make shellfish dangerous to eat. The toxins may also make the surrounding air difficult to breathe. As the name suggests, the bloom of algae often turns the water red. HABs have been reported in every U.S. coastal state, and their occurrence may be on the rise. HABs are a national concern because they affect not only the health of people and marine ecos
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Habitat Loss Nearly 3 million acres of existing agricultural lands and 2.7 million acres of native habitat will be claimed by roads, shopping malls and subdivisions. During the mid-20 th century, Florida lost more than seven million acres of forest and herbaceous wetlands to development. The addition of 18 million new residents to Florida will intensely heighten the competition between wildlife and humans for land and water resources. More than 1.6 million acres of woodland habitat may be lost and wetland habitats will become more isolated and degraded. If Florida's population doubles during the next five decades, about 7 million additional acres of land  - equivalent to the state of Vermont - could be converted from rural and natural to urban uses . Florida’s massive population growth and booming tourism industry have disturbed and fragmented many natural areas across the state. Estimates based on current growth rates suggest Florida could lose an additional
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