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USA Today: Mental Health System Is 'In Shambles'
The failure to provide treatment has led to crowded emergency rooms and jails and thousands of untreated people living on the streets, the newspaper reports. Other stories look at a South Carolina "telepsychiatry" program designed to provide rural patients with psychiatric help and a program in Missouri that partners police with mental health counselors.
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