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Western Pa. veteran suicide spurs questions about safety of VA mental health treatments

The recent suicide of a Marine Corps veteran from Brentwood, Pennsylvania, has inspired his father, a former politician in Allegheny County, to push for an investigation into a possible link between veteran suicides and VA-prescribed mental health drugs, writes Adam Smeltz of Trib Total Media. Read the full article, which does a great job of localizing the issue of military suicides by contextualizing it through a local lens and marrying DoD data with insights from regional and national sources, here.