[ExI] how to help?

[Dave Sill]

I think we should work on the vet problem by ending the wars we're
fighting, closing bases on foreign soil, drastically cutting the military
budget, and improving the VA.

But that won't happen, obviously.

-Dave

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Mike Dougherty <msd001 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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