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| Bush Legacy: 120 US war veteran suicides a week -from correspondents in New York November 15, 2007 09:47am |
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The US military is experiencing a "suicide epidemic" with veterans killing themselves at the rate of 120 a week, according to an investigation by CBS. At least 6256 US veterans committed suicide in 2005 - an average of 17 a day - they said, with veterans overall more than twice as likely to take their own lives as the rest of the general population. That figure rose to 22.9 to 31.9 suicides per 100,000 among veterans aged 20 to 24 - almost four times the non-veteran average for the age group. "Those numbers clearly show an epidemic of mental health problems,'' says vets advocate Paul Sullivan. click on link for full story |