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Helping veterans get back to home base
http://homebaseprogram.org/
A Rise in GI Alcohol Abuse Indicated
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20090619_gi_alcohol_abuse_is_up/
Wounds of War: Drug Problems Among Iraq, Afghan Vets Could Dwarf Vietnam : http://www.jointogether.org/news/features/2009/wounds-of-war-drug-problems.html
As many as 7,000 to 8,000 homeless women veterans.
link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27646499/
link: http://www.operationdignity.org/
A flood of stressed vets is expected.
Link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/09/BALQTQEO0.DTL
Parents of wounded vets become caregivers.
Link: http://www.aarpmagazine.org/family/when_wounded_vets_come_home.html
Approximately 1,000 veterans try to commit suicide every month, according to documents from the VA's mental health division.
Link: http://warcomeshome.org/node/260
Homeless Veterans start rock band
Link: www.wickedlocal.com/bedford/archive/x288022962
US vets suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder are alleging a system-wide breakdown in the way the government treats injured soldiers.
Link: http://warcomeshome.org/april-22nd%3A-crisis-veterans-healthcare-broadcast-blog
A CBS news investigation in November found that 120 veterans kill themselves every week; or over 6,000 per year. CBS asked all 50 states for their suicide data, based on death records for veterans and non-veterans, and found that veterans were twice as likely to commit suicide.
Link: http://warcomeshome.org/content/promise-only-exists-paper
On any given night 200,000 veterans sleep homeless on the street. Increasingly those veterans are younger folks who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Link: http://warcomeshome.org/content/promise-only-exists-paper
The average wait time for a veteran's disability claim to be decided is now 183 days. More than 600,000 disabled vets are waiting.
11,407 U.S. soldiers have been discharged for drug abuse after serving in Iraq or Afghanistan; 6,159 have been kicked out for "discreditable incidents"; 6,436 have been discharged for "commission of a serious offense"; 2,246 have been discharged for "the good of the service"; and 3,365 have been discharged for "personality disorder,"
Link: http://warcomeshome.org/content/promise-only-exists-paper
in 2004 nearly 1.8 million veterans were uninsured and unable to get care in veterans' facilities. An additional 3.8 million members of their households faced the same predicament. All told, this group made up roughly 12 percent of the huge population of uninsured Americans.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/opinion/09fri2.html
Massachusetts vets struggle upon returning home. http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/11/11/back_but_not_at_home/
A growing tide of Veterans with Traumatic brain injuries (TBI's)
link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/us/26tbi.html
link:www.dav.org
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