veterans suicide – Medill National Security Zone http://nationalsecurityzone.medill.northwestern.edu A resource for covering national security issues Tue, 15 Mar 2016 22:20:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Western Pa. veteran suicide spurs questions about safety of VA mental health treatments http://nationalsecurityzone.medill.northwestern.edu/blog/2015/04/09/western-pa-veteran-suicide-spurs-questions-about-safety-of-va-mental-health-treatments/ Thu, 09 Apr 2015 10:54:59 +0000 http://nationalsecurityzone.medill.northwestern.edu/site/?p=21318 Continue reading →]]> 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.

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