Senator: ‘Real work lies ahead’ on mental health

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WASHINGTON (AP) — R. Creigh Deeds, the Virginia state senator whose mentally ill adult son attacked him before killing himself, called mental health reform he helped push through the state’s General Assembly in the wake of the tragedy “incremental change.”

“The real work lies ahead,” Deeds told a National Press Club audience Monday.

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