Guns, adolescents, and mental illness.

Am J Psychiatry

Department of Psychiatry, University Hospitals Case Medical Center/Case Western Reserve University, 11100 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106-5080, USA.

Published: February 2008

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