Iraq, Afghanistan Vets Get Mental Health Diagnoses At 37 Percent Rate
An article in today’s New York Times reports on a study out of the San Francisco VA/UCSF that the prevalence of mental disorders among Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans is discouragingly high.
“The researchers found that 37 percent of those people received mental health diagnoses. Of those, the diagnosis for 22 percent was post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, for 17 percent it was depression and for 7 percent it was alcohol abuse. One-third of the people with mental health diagnoses had three or more problems, the study found.”
War is surely Hell.
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