Friday, September 4, 2009

Lack of data hinders prevention efforts | IndyStar.com | The Indianapolis Star

Lack of data hinders prevention efforts | IndyStar.com | The Indianapolis Star

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A 2008 Congressional Research Service Report on the issue put it bluntly: "There is no nationwide system for surveillance of suicide specifically among veterans."
How can the rising numbers of suicides among our military veterans be prevented? It's terrible enough that they suffer in war, are sent away from their families, and deal with PTSD and injury, but then to die by their own hand because of their suffering, how terrible for them, their families, for all of us.

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