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Mental health services criticized

Advocacy group says state falters

By Scott Allen
Globe Staff / March 1, 2006

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Despite being home to more psychiatrists per capita than almost any other state, Massachusetts forces thousands of mentally ill people to wait for help or do without care altogether because of funding shortages and confusing bureaucracies, according to a gloomy national report card on public mental health services. (Full article: 582 words)

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