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Article: More postpartum depression programs reaching mothers: Navy, state screening programs launched.(SPECIAL REPORT: An in-depth look at current public health issues)
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- The Nation's Health
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- August 1, 2006
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IN JANUARY 1984, Richard and Mary Jo Codey got the best news of their lives: They were going to become parents. At no time during that day of celebration could the couple have imagined that one year later, Mary Jo, overcome by the devastating effects of postpartum depression, world be fighting for her life in a New Jersey mental institution while Richard and other family members cared for their beautiful new son.
Nor would they have ever dreamed that Richard, an aspiring politician, would one day serve as the 53rd governor of New Jersey, and that Mary Jo would use her influence as first lady to help make New Jersey the first state in the nation to mandate ...