Here we go again VA research shows mental illnesses common among returning vets

[Monkeyman]

Almost one-third of returning veterans who received health care at Veterans Affairs facilities between 2001 and 2005 were given mental health or psychosocial diagnosis according to a report in the March 12 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Here the link http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-03/jaaj-mia030907.php

This is going to get bad. Jail, Death by Cop,Abuse,Drugs all shades of Vietnam only worse.

[Nikki Stone1]

1. Privatization will only make all this worse

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[Monkeyman]

2. You got that right they won't treat or pay

[blues90]

3. Is there anyway to contact these troops like John Shannon ?

The people who are going to DC on the 17th should focus on the Walter Reed vets rather on the pentagon .

At least if there were a way to contact some of these injured vets many could at least let them know they are thought of .

[Monkeyman]

4. Brother on the 17th at the right hand base of the Wall meet up with some

[CrazyOrangeCat]

5. so many of the Guard have already lost their stateside jobs.

Now some will wind up in shelters and on the streets . . . like you say, for the cops to work over.

[Monkeyman]

6. We have a small one open but we need a hell of allot more

http://www.helpaveteran.org

[ends_dont_justify]

7. I read in WW2 they found some mental illness was caused by mal nutrition

and disease. I wonder if this is also to blame on the way the troops are being fed and treated, and that issue should be looked into as well with more scrutinization.

[Monkeyman]

8. This is more PTSD then anything else