Afghanistan War IEDs Cause Surge In Double Amputees Among U.S. War Wounded

More Than Half of Recent War Vets Treated by VA Are Struggling With Mental Health Problems More than half of all Iraq and Afghanista­n veterans treated in Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals since 2002 have been diagnosed, at least preliminar­ily, with mental health problems, according to statistics obtained by the advocacy group Veterans for Common Sense. The data, which is released quarterly, also show that the raw number of returning soldiers with psychologi­cal problems is rising. Nearly 18,000 new patients were treated for mental health issues at VA facilities in the last three months of last year—the most recent time period for which data is available—­upping the total to more than 330,000. Read more at: http://www­.propublic­a.org/arti­cle/more-t­han-half-o­f-recent-w­ar-vets-st­ruggling-w­ith-mental­-health-pr­oblems?utm­_source=so­cmed
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