Report: Military failing to treat mental disorders among soldiers

[babylonsister]

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070429/NEWS01/704290303/1002

Report: Military failing to treat mental disorders among soldiers
By ERIC NEWHOUSE
Tribune Projects Editor

Military doctors are largely failing to treat mental disorders among soldiers returning from combat, according to an independent review group report commissioned by the Department of Defense in the wake of the Walter Reed Hospital scandal.

It quoted the American Psychiatric Association as saying, "Our work group has found the consequences of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to be a national public health crisis."

The recent report also found that although military medical needs skyrocketed because of returning disabled soldiers, defense spending didn't even keep pace with the civilian medical inflation.
It also recommended establishing a medical treatment and research center devoted solely to brain injuries.

PTSD and TBI on the rise
Trauma teams are saving more lives on the battlefield than ever before, achieving the lowest mortality rates of the wounded in American military history.

"Nevertheless, those achievements have resulted in increasing numbers of survivors with multiple trauma, (and) visible and nonvisible injuries such as traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder," the review board found.

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[SpiralHawk]

1. Why do republicons HATE our soldiers and veterans?

Hello?

They lie the troops into an oil profits war.

They give them shitty subpar equipment.

They violate all their promises to the soldiers.

They give the soldiers CRAPPY physical and mental health care.

They screw and mistreat veterans at the VA hospitals.

And then they Trash Talk men and women who have served honorably.

WHY DO REPUBLICONS HATE AMERICA'S SOLDIERS AND VETERANS?


I think its because so many republicons are Chickenhawks, and deeply ashamed of themselves...

[Kurovski]

2. Families and society will suffer right along with the untreated.

It's horrible.

Suicides will be a given.

Please...impeach, indict, and imprison the Bush criminals.

[SpiralHawk]

5. Military Failing to Treat Mental Disorder of putative Commander in Chief

The pathetic and corrupt Evil Doer: Commander AWOL.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Support our troops. IMPEACH the chickenhawk republicons

All of them...

[Monkeyman]

4. Agree