August 08, 2013

Pentagon doctors claim military suicides not related to combat

Conditioned to Die? What drives a military man to suicide?
Deployments to war zones and combat exposure have no effect on military suicides and fail to explain the increase in self-inflicted deaths that occurred from 2001 to 2008, concluded a new medical study, thereby contradicting previous research.
Military medical researchers on Tuesday published a paper that claims mental disorders, such as depression and alcohol abuse – not combat – are to blame for military suicides.   (rinf.com)

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