[ExI] how to help?

[Mike Dougherty]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 6:19 PM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It now seems that vets are committing suicide at the rate of 20 or so a
> day.  More Vietnam vets have done so than died in combat there.
>
> The VA promises to cut waiting time, is being reorganized, is underfunded,
> etc.
>
> I am not a vet but was a clinical psychologist in part, and it seems that
> vets and PTSD is being treated like mental illness - i.e. like please just
> go away, I don't want to think about you.
>
> Sapolsky, whose book I have finished and will review shortly, says that
> brain images had to be shown to Congress so that they understand that a
> disease is there, not just some wimpy guys crying themselves to sleep at
> night.
>
> Outside of the mentally ill, I just don't know of a group that deserves
> far, far more attention than these vets.  Alcoholism, drug addiction,
> homelessness, are rampant.
>
> Why would anyone want to go fight a war for the USA?  Especially in
> unwinnable wars like we have now.
>
>
How many of those vets are also among the statistics for opioid-related
deaths? I'm not asking to isolate the groups as much as identify that there
are confounding factors that make single-symptom treatments unlikely to be
effective.  If we start considering the extenuating circumstances for each
demographic (or vets specifically) we will probably find a bunch of reasons
that are obscured behind a one-size/one-problem sound bite.
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