Website review: Shh! VAs obfuscation on veterans s...
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StumbleKKSS discovered 3 months ago- From the page: "One particularly odious e-mail from the head of VA mental health, Ira Katz, to his colleagues was headed "Shh!" and described the previously unreleased number of attempted suicides known to VA officials â€" 1,000 per month. It went on, "Is this something we should (carefully) address ourselves in some sort of release before someone stumbles on it?" The e-mail was written shortly after the VA told CBS that there were 790 attempted suicides in all of 2007. A class-action lawsuit filed by veterans against the VA charges that Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder are not receiving the care they need because of enormous backlogs in benefits claims, and that many suicidal veterans have unsuccessfully sought mental health care. (A recent Rand Corp. study found that 320,000 troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from traumatic brain injuries, and 300,000 troops suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder or major depression.)"
