Posts Tagged ‘ptsd’

THE WAR AT HOME: SUICIDE

May 6, 2008

According to the government’s top psychiatric researchers, post-war suicides of soldiers home from Afghanistan and Iraq may exceed combined combat death tolls. Bloomberg reports:
Community mental health centers, hobbled by financial limits, haven’t provided enough scientifically sound care, especially in rural areas, said Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. [...]

 

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