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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Disturbing Rise in Suicides Amongst Servicemembers and Veterans


VA and DoD Mental Health Leaders Address Rising Suicide Rates 04/20/2010. Suicide rates among servicemembers and veterans remain high, causing concern that VA and military health care could be doing more in terms of prevention and treatment. Now some legislators have questioned whether certain treatments—what some are describing as an overuse of antidepressant medications, which have been linked to increased suicidal ideations—might be doing more harm than good. U.S. Medicine

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