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ER visits, long waits climb for kids in mental health crisis

by Lindsey Tanner
| December 5, 2020 6:33 AM

When children and teens are overwhelmed with anxiety, depression or thoughts of self-harm, they often wait days in emergency rooms because there aren’t enough psychiatric beds.

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