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This increase in suicides reflects the larger problem of the army’s failure to fulfill the mental-health needs of troops. An improvement of our nation’s military mental-health programs is long overdue—those who have chosen to serve our country deserve the same attention paid to their minds as to their bodies...
Though the U.S. military is already taking some necessary first steps to address the problem, they are not enough. Hiring 250 additional mental-health practitioners is a start, but even more should be hired and dispersed around the world where troops can access them. Should funding be an issue, money should be allocated from other programs. This is no area to cut costs; there is no higher priority than the health of our troops...
...tragic and often preventable phenomenon in themselves, but they also lower the morale of troops and the nation as a whole. As we fight two wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the need for high morale is clear. President Obama as commander-in-chief should work to implement higher-quality mental services into hospitals on the ground. The first place these services toward which these services should be directed is Afghanistan, since President Obama has been talking about sending more troops to assist in the fighting...
...affairs hospitals remain shamefully inaccessible. That VA hospitals may not have the resources to attend to all soldiers does not mean that thousands of soldiers should get lost in the system. The suicide count of veterans is astoundingly high, especially considering the number of non-governmental mental-health practitioners that could potentially have helped them. If VA hospitals don’t have the necessary staff to see troops, the army should provide vouchers and referrals to mental-health professionals...
They found that patients with high levels of cotinine were 44% more likely to show signs of cognitive impairment than those with very low levels. There was also "an exposure-response gradient" between cotinine concentration and poor mental performance: the more cotinine in a subject's saliva, the worse that subject performed on tests measuring mental agility, memory and clear thinking. (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...