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Newtown Shooting Put Spotlight on U.S. Mental Health Care -- Again

It has not yet been confirmed whether Adam Lanza had been diagnosed with mental illness, but the 20-year-old who murdered his mother, then drove to a Newtown, Conn., elementary school and gunned down 20 first-graders and six adults has again shined the spotlight on care for the mentally ill in the United States, and has many asking whether yet another mass shooting could have been prevented. Despite four shooting rampages since President Obama took office in 2009, mental health care...Full Story
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