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Mental health cases tax police, emergency workers

BURLINGTON, Vt., 11.21.2009

BY LISA RATHKE , Associated Press Writer

Police found him sitting on the floor of his old apartment near a bucket of urine, still dressed in his hospital gown.

The apartment had been condemned for the squalor _ food on the floor, flies _ and his smoking in bed. But the mentally ill man, just released from the hospital, had managed to get back in. For the second time in four days, he was taken by ambulance to the read full story...


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