MARTHA ROSENBERG During the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, suicides among active-duty troops were frequently reported. Since then, news reports have subsided but the suicides have not. In fact, a 2022 report from the Defense Suicide Prevention Office revealed that there were more suicides in 2021 than any other year since the September…
Month: June 2023
Managing Medications for Mental Health in Military Personnel
Abimbola Farinde, PhD, PharmD Pharmacists can be instrumental in helping to curtail the prevalence of psychotropic medication misuse while also providing unique expertise on drug information. Military life is thought to be a risk factor for psychiatric problems such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, generalized anxiety disorder, and panic…
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Veterans Strategic Solutions (VSS) was created to form alliances and strategic coalitions,irrespective of political affiliation, in order to enlighten, inform and increase awareness, toenhance the survival of the veteran public, who individually would not have the strength northe power of such influential alliances. One of our areas of expertise is to…