VA's Mental Health Report & Gen. Kiley Resigns

[Monkeyman]

Run time: 03:51 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcsm6z09UU8   Posted on YouTube: March 13, 2007 By YouTube Member: lscott7224 Views on YouTube: 2964   Posted on DU: March 13, 2007 By DU Member: Monkeyman Views on DU: 689

 
This is only going to get worse Brothers and Sisters We Need to Bring them Home and Treat them Now

[frogcycle]

1. related...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=392733&mesg_id=392733

[Monkeyman]

2. There is a hell of allot of stories out there

Bush, DOD , VA should and must face the people some time on this

[lazer47]

3. I hate to say this

but these people haven't face up to anything since Tet of '68, and me and you or at least me I'm 60 yrs old and on my last leg of this journey, and the more of us (Nam Vets) that die the less the VA has to face up to,,,,,

[Monkeyman]

4. Welcome Home

[Divernan]

5. Fresh Air report on misuse of psychotropic drugs on soldiers in Iraq/Afghanistan

Interviews
sometimes resulting in suicidal/homocidal side effects. I couldn't get the link to work but it was on NPR's "Fresh Air" today (that's Monday).

Journalists Document Military Mental-Health Failings



Web Resources
Courant.com - Mentally Unfit Soldiers

Fresh Air from WHYY, March 12, 2007 · Journalists Lisa Chedekel and Matthew Kauffman of The Hartford Courant have been awarded the George Polk Award for their series from May on flaws in the military's mental health system: Mentally Unfit, Forced to Fight.

Their reporting found that troops sent on deployment are, for the most part, not getting mental health evaluations, even though they are mandated by Congress.

Chedekel and Kauffman reported that the military is relying on psychotropic medications to keep service members in combat, and that soldiers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are being sent back into battle for multiple tours of duty.

[Monkeyman]

6. They did a great report

[Lorien]

7. It's free on iTunes

Just go to Podcasts > NPR > Fresh Air. It's the last podcast listed.