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Press Release: California Counties Faulted in not providing Bedell Proactive Treatment

Arlington, VA,  March 7, 2010

"John Patrick Bedell did not have to rock the nation's sense of calm and security by meeting his death on the Pentagon steps" Jim Pavle, Executive Director of the Treatment Advocacy Center said today. "Like many of our citizens with mental illness, Bedell was just too sick to stay in treatment on his own and another preventable tragedy occurred."

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