Nowhere to Go: Mentally ill youth in crisis - 60 minutes story

The following script is from "Nowhere to Go" which aired on Jan. 26, 2014. Scott Pelley is the correspondent. Michael Rey and Oriana Zill de Granados.
Last November 19th, Virginia State Senator Creigh Deeds was slashed and stabbed repeatedly by his own son. Gus Deeds was 24 years old and had been struggling with mental illness. He and his father had been in an emergency room just hours before the attack but didn’t get the help that they needed. The story of what went wrong with his medical care exposes a problem in the way that America handles mental health. It’s a failure that came to the fore with the murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

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