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Most people in the world with mental illness get no treatment at all, and scarce mental health resources are not reaching the people who need them most, U.S. researchers said on Thursday. "The treatment data we have are pretty troubling," said Dr. Philip Wang of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health, whose study appears in the Lancet medical journal. Wang and colleagues studied mental health treatment data on 84,850 adults in 17 developed and developing countries taken from the World Health Organization's mental health surveys. Read on
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