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Breakdown: In Crisis, New Orleans Cuts Mental Health Efforts

The only hospital in New Orleans providing in-patient mental health treatment will close next month despite an epidemic of psychological problems plaguing the hurricane-ravaged city. Even as it faces a skyrocketing suicide rate and increases in cases of depression and post-traumatic stress, the Gulf Coast city is slated to lose the New Orleans Adolescent Hospital, which has been the center for mental health care for residents young and old since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city nearly four...Full Story
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