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hlthe2b

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1. There are no words. There is no explanation except that we live in a country that ignores/discards
Mon Jan 17, 2022, 06:03 AM
Jan 2022

its mentally ill. I will never forget Ronald Reagan being "celebrated" by many (both the naive' and the "cynically purposeful" ) for dismantling our mental health system and sending these people to the streets. Despite all the so-called reassurances for residential treatment--most of us KNEW adequate funding for the latter would never come. This is the cost to so many.

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