Word: presidentelect
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...least a third of the homeless are mentally ill. Most have been released from state asylums during the past two decades as part of a well-intended campaign to free patients whose disorders can be controlled with drugs. "It was a good civil libertarian idea," says Dr. John Talbott, presidentelect of the American Psychiatric Association. "The trouble was that city and state governments failed to set up a safety net for those who don't cope well." On Los Angeles' Skid Row, says Social Worker Herb Lester, "I get a lot of people who say, 'They gave...