A man-made disaster A Mental Health System Drowning From Neglect

Elizabeth Prewitt PACEsConnection writer 5/20/1412:00 PM

More than a half million Americans with serious mental illness are falling through the cracks of a system in tatters, a USA Today special report shows.

The mentally ill who have nowhere to go and find little sympathy from those around them often land hard in emergency rooms, county jails and city streets. The lucky ones find homes with family. The unlucky ones show up in the morgue.

http://www.usatoday.com/longform/news/nation/2014/05/12/mental-health-system-crisis/7746535/

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