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'The law is applicable to everyone,' wrote Alckmin who is running for the PSDB, a center-right party whose former head Senator Aecio Neves stood down as a candidate after being charged with corruption.Īnd Rodrigo Maia, leader of the Federal Chamber of Deputies and also a former presidential candidate under investigation as part of Operation Car Wash, said 'nobody who holds public office in any country should celebrate an order to jail a former head of state.'īut on social media, it was a very different story with the arrest order hailed by civil society organizations who had backed the 2016 impeachment of leftist president Dilma Rousseff, Lula's protector and successor. Writing on Twitter, Sao Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckmin, who is seeking to unite a wide range of right-leaning centrists in the upcoming election, said: 'It is regrettable to see the order to arrest a former president but I am convinced this symbolizes an important change in Brazil: the end of impunity.' But all that will change when he steps down from office.

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Last year, the conservative leader became the first president in Brazil's history to be charged with corruption.Īlready charged on two counts and possibly facing a third, he has so far managed to escape trial through being shielded by a loyal Congress. This year, we must elect a president, a man or a woman who is honest, who has God in their heart and who is a patriot,' he said in remarks far from his usual aggression-filled campaigning. 'Brazil has scored a goal against impunity and corruption, but it's hardly that. Only one shot was fired and no-one was hurt but it raised the alarm over tensions ahead of the vote in which Lula had hoped to make a comeback.Įven his chief rival, the outspoken hard-right populist Jair Bolsonaro, appeared to be at pains to calm the situation. Last month, a campaign bus carrying Lula came under fire as it was traveling between towns in southern Brazil ahead of the October 7 presidential election. The arrest of a hugely popular figure like Lula - who was convicted for accepting a luxury seaside apartment as a bribe from a construction firm linked to Petrobras - comes in the context of a growing climate of violence. To date, however, paroxetine is the only SSRI that is licensed for the treatment of social anxiety disorder.And what was likely to be at the forefront of their minds was this, he said: 'If Lula, who is so popular and who has topped all the polls this year, becomes a prisoner, what is going to happen to me?'Īccording to Congresso em Foco, nearly 40 percent of lawmakers and federal senators are currently under scrutiny for alleged misuse of public money or for receiving backhanders.īreaking it down, more than half of Brazil's 81 senators and just over a third of its 513 lawmakers have been ordered to appear in court in connection with allegations of graft. This book addresses a challenge faced by environmental health and safety leaders in government and industry: the role of expertise in building a transparent. The International Consensus Group on Depression and Anxiety recently recommended that a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) should be considered as first-line pharmacotherapy. IDAHO In June, Sequel announced it was shutting down its 60-bed treatment center in Mountain Home, Idaho, a city of 16,000 people located about 40 miles southeast of Boise. A number of management strategies have shown promise for the treatment of the condition. The latest Sequel treatment centers to close are in Idaho, Florida, and Iowa, all of which had been under government scrutiny in recent years. The main focus of this article is to review available treatment options for social anxiety disorder, both psychosocial and pharmacotherapeutic. The approach required during diagnosis of the condition will also be addressed, in particular, the differentiation between social anxiety disorder and other anxiety disorders with similar presentation.

This review will briefly examine the etiology of social anxiety disorder. As with many psychiatric disorders, the condition is likely to have several causes, including genetic and familial factors, early experiences, and cognitive mechanisms.

Social anxiety disorder (social phobia) is a chronic disabling condition.

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