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Withdrawal Psychosis and the Aftermath of Tragedy

Mad in America

A crime that shocked a nation: In sleepy Raurimu, a tiny settlement in New Zealand’s central North Island, the Saturday morning peace was shattered on the 8 th of February, 1997 when a young man from Wellington turned a shotgun onto a group of people staying at his family’s ski and hunting lodge. Six people died that morning and another four were seriously wounded.