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APA Medical Director Comments on Gun Control and Mental Health System

While advocates of some form of gun-control legislation, particularly a mandate for more-comprehensive background checks of buyers, recently suffered a major setback when the Senate failed to muster a sufficiently large majority to pass such a bill despite widespread public support, mental health issues raised in the gun-control debate still have a pulse, according to a report in Politico newspaper yesterday.But do mental health experts and advocates think linking mental health care to guns is a winning strategy? “It wasn’t our choice to be tied to guns—it was kind of the...

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Published By: Psychiatric News - Monday, 22 April

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