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Suicide Prevention and Support for Those Left Behind

September 19, 2022No Comments

NAMI Yavapai

Verde Valley News – Since September is National Suicide Awareness and Prevention Month, the next Mental Health Monday program on September 26, 2022, 10:00 to 11:30 AM, will focus on suicide prevention and support for those who have lost a loved one to suicide. Please join us for this important discussion and message of hope. This free program via Zoom has been organized by NAMI Yavapai and the Northern Arizona Peer & Family Coalition. The following two speakers will be featured:

Doug Dolan is the co-owner of and COO at Recovery in the Pines, a substance abuse and mental health facility. Doug is on various community committees including the Suicide Prevention Coalition of Yavapai County. Doug has been sober since April 19, 1997, lost a younger brother to an opioid overdose, and he also lost his best friend of 30 years to suicide. He regularly conducts public speaking engagements on substance abuse and mental health at schools, organizations, institutions, and other media.

Kelly Lee is currently a contractor for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), bringing community programs to Yavapai County to educate people about the harms of opioids through the DEA Operation Engage initiative. She is also the Program Coordinator for the Suicide Prevention Coalition of Yavapai County. Kelly worked within the criminal justice field in various capacities during and after graduating college.

The program is free by going to or contact NAMIYavapai.org for more information.

NAMI Yavapai is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people with mental illness and their families through support, education, and advocacy.

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A Cauldron of Misconceptions: Sedona Enquirer
By Sean Dedalus

Sedona, AZ — I don’t know what happened to the Publisher of Sedona.Biz, the once moderate and reasonable journalist, Tommy Acosta. Or maybe I do. He must be pulling our leg.

In Mr. Acosta’s last Opinion piece, Cauldron of Chaos, Acosta pins together a necklace of current events and concludes we are on the verge of a “cosmic reckoning”. Acosta throws paint on the canvas with each hand slapping the slop on the imagination of the readers. He says in Georgia, a young college student jogging on campus was raped and murdered by Jose Antonio Ibarra, an illegal alien. Shortly thereafter, Congress passes the Laken Riley Bill.

In Louisiana, Acosta points to Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a US Army veteran who killed 14 people and left 35 more injured after he drove a truck into a crowd on New Years Day.

In New York City Sebastian Zapeta, another illegal alien took out a match and set afire a sleeping woman to death on a Brooklyn subway. Meanwhile, up in Manhattan, the CEO of United Healthcare was shot in the back by Luigi Mangione an Ivy League graduate. Acosta also takes us to Colorado where the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua took over an entire apartment building.

Acosta is not finished as he suggests that Los Angelas County’s California looked like nine concentric circles of torment which constituted hell on Earth, as spelled out by Dante Aligheri.

Finally, Mr. Acosta draws our attention to the skies all around the world where US Black Op drones follow alien plasma orbs, while Joe Biden wears his typical dumbfounded look and mumbles that even though he does not know what is going on, there is no evidence of any danger to public safety.

Mr. Acosta warns American society is unravelling at the seams. He stops short of predicting the showdown between Jesus and the Antichrist. His Opinion reads like the script to The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock.

I am sorry to report to Mr. Acosta that there is no evil spirit spreading fear throughout America. That’s right. No evil spirit. Just greedy criminals and politicians. And very stupid politicians whose malfeasance borderlines on criminal conduct.

If we were to reflect as to events suggesting the end of the world we need only look back to World War II (1939-1945). Over 30 Nations were actually at war. Over 100 million people served in uniform. An estimated 70-85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the global population in 1940. On 6 and 9 of August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 286,818 people were killed.

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