Veteran Suicide Epidemic
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"At least 6,256 Americans who served in the military committed suicide in 2005... a staggering rate of 120 suicides a week," according to CBS. That's "a rate twice that of other Americans."
* Veterans aged 20-24, who are those most likely to have served during the War on Terror, are killing themselves when they return home at rates estimated to be between 2.5 and almost 4 times higher than non-vets in the same age group. (22.9 to 31.9 per 100,000 people as compared to just 8.3 per 100,000 for non-vets).
* Overall, those who have served in the military were more than twice as likely to take their own life in 2005, than Americans who never served. (18.7-20.8 per 100,000 as compared to 8.9 per 100,000).
...The CBS News Investigative Unit, led by producer Pia Malbran, contacted all 50 states for their suicide data, based on death records, for vets and non-vets dating back to 1995. Beyond the first-ever collection of raw nationwide numbers, Dr. Steve Rathbun, the acting head of the biostatistics department at the University of Georgia, did a detailed analysis of the numbers provided by state authorities for 2004 and 2005.
...Paul Rieckhoff, founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans for America: "Not everyone comes home from the war wounded, but the bottom line is nobody comes home unchanged."
- via Wired
* Veterans aged 20-24, who are those most likely to have served during the War on Terror, are killing themselves when they return home at rates estimated to be between 2.5 and almost 4 times higher than non-vets in the same age group. (22.9 to 31.9 per 100,000 people as compared to just 8.3 per 100,000 for non-vets).
* Overall, those who have served in the military were more than twice as likely to take their own life in 2005, than Americans who never served. (18.7-20.8 per 100,000 as compared to 8.9 per 100,000).
...The CBS News Investigative Unit, led by producer Pia Malbran, contacted all 50 states for their suicide data, based on death records, for vets and non-vets dating back to 1995. Beyond the first-ever collection of raw nationwide numbers, Dr. Steve Rathbun, the acting head of the biostatistics department at the University of Georgia, did a detailed analysis of the numbers provided by state authorities for 2004 and 2005.
...Paul Rieckhoff, founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans for America: "Not everyone comes home from the war wounded, but the bottom line is nobody comes home unchanged."
- via Wired
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