post-war suicides may outstrip combat deaths
from Bloomberg Science >>
Insel echoed a Rand Corporation study published last month that found about 20 percent of returning U.S. soldiers have post- traumatic stress disorder or depression, and only half of them receive treatment. About 1.6 million U.S. troops have fought in the two wars since October 2001, the report said. About 4,560 soldiers had died in the conflicts as of today, the Defense Department reported on its Web site.
Based on those figures and established suicide rates for similar patients who commonly develop substance abuse and other complications of post-traumatic stress disorder, ``it's quite possible that the suicides and psychiatric mortality of this war could trump the combat deaths,'' Insel said.
2 comments:
Listen how the VA lied about it at UprisingRadio.org:
http://ia360913.us.archive.org/2/items/DailyDigest-050808/2008_05_08_coleman.mp3
one thousand suicide attempts a month -- that is astonishing. the desire for the gov't and military to save face at the expense of our peers who are still struggling with the physical and mental effects of the war(S) is disgusting.
from november 2003, nearly FIVE years ago, is this nytimes article detailing some of the physical conditions our soldiers have come home with here
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