"To Have No Yesterday": The Rise of Suicide Rates in the Military and Among Veterans
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McCarl, Lindsay
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2013
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46
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Journal Article
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INTRODUCTION|In March 2010, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs ("VA") released a sobering statistic: every eighty minutes, a military veteran commits suicide. The number of suicides has increased significantly since the beginning of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, despite the implementation of VA-sponsored programs to help stave off deaths of our war-beaten warriors. One such program, the Veterans Crisis Line, took more than 650,000 calls and claims to have saved more than 23,000 lives in the five years since its inception in 2007. Yet still, twenty-two veterans take their lives everyday, and a currently serving sailor, Marine, soldier, or airman takes his or her life every thirty-six hours. The VA-in addition to a number of other relevant societal and governmental actors-has simply not done enough to prevent suicides among our veterans and military personnel...
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46 Creighton L. Rev. 393 (2012-2013)
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Creighton University School of Law