Guest post by John Spagnola Currently, our veterans are faced with rising suicide, polypharmacy and overdose rates.In fact, suicide rates have unfortunately maintained for over 10 years, in spite of billions of dollars being spent on various programs and administrative modifications. Sometimes it is simplicity that can be most effective….
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Washington DC Legislative Activities Update on Written Informed Consent
Dear DailyClout, We must protect our veterans’ mental and physical well-being by ensuring that they receive full and adequate information when they are prescribed the following black box medications – antipsychotics, antidepressants, stimulants, narcotics, and anti-anxiety medications. This would make it the prescriber’s responsibility to inform the veteran of the various,…
H.R.5633 – Veteran Suicide Prevention Act118th Congress (2023-2024
I had written this bill some years back. It is so popular that it continues to attract US Congressmen to sponsor it newly, every congressional session. I’ve had over 70 US Congressman co-sponsor (support) it in one session. The bill asks for a study to be to be done on…
An alarming rise in military suicides: Unveiling hidden crisis and urgent need for action
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…
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…
VSS Mission Statement
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…
