The purpose of this assignment is to develop critical thinking in an area of addiction/mental illness and social justice issues. Social justice issues have many faces and affect groups in different ways. In general, a social justice issue is about inequality: economic, racial, political, gender, health access, power, etc. For this assignment, your paper will focus on some current aspect of the mental health and/or addiction field in the United States that raises social justice issues. This could include the social justice issues that are caused by treatment practices and models, social policies, insurance policies, criminal justice policies, legal policies, media practices, etc. It could also include social justice issues that result from types or lack of community organization, prevention, or the social justice issues related to special populations, co-occurring disorders, and any other topic approved by the instructor. The paper should be 8-10 pages in length. Five references, of which three should be scholarly. APA Format.