BD comment of the day: Suicide is killing more combat vets than Iraq is
It didn’t take Jim Gourley long to get back on the board with this powerful observation about August: "This was the first month that there were no American combat deaths in Iraq. So we can say with certainty that more veterans of that war died as a result of PTSD/depression at home than they did ...
It didn't take Jim Gourley long to get back on the board with this powerful observation about August: "This was the first month that there were no American combat deaths in Iraq. So we can say with certainty that more veterans of that war died as a result of PTSD/depression at home than they did of direct enemy action in country."
It didn’t take Jim Gourley long to get back on the board with this powerful observation about August: "This was the first month that there were no American combat deaths in Iraq. So we can say with certainty that more veterans of that war died as a result of PTSD/depression at home than they did of direct enemy action in country."
Meanwhile, here is another vote for marijuana as a PTSD palliative. I wonder if this is what ultimately may lead to legalization.
Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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