Zachary Roth writes in The Lookout that “State budget cuts, as well as a widespread stigma attached to mental illness, may have made it easier for the suspect in Saturday's deadly Tucson shootings to slip through the cracks despite clear signs of mental illness, according to mental health advocates in Arizona and nationally....
>>>Zachary Roth writes in The Lookout that “State budget cuts, as well as a widespread stigma attached to mental illness, may have made it easier for the suspect in Saturday's deadly Tucson shootings to slip through the cracks despite clear signs of mental illness, according to mental health advocates in Arizona and nationally.
Cuts to Arizona's mental health services wiped out funding for the kind of early detection and intervention programs that might have steered the shooting suspect, Jared Loughner, into treatment, they say. But a broader sense of fear and confusion around mental health issues also lies behind the lack of access, according to experts.”
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