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IPFS News Link • Military Industrial Complex

U.S. Spent $5.6 Billion Last Year Treating Veterans with Mental Disabilities

04-20-2010 • Blacklistednews.com/

One military survey of about 100,000 veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars showed that 31% had been diagnosed with mental health or psychosocial problems. The Chicago Tribune found mental illness-related disability costs have soared 76% since 2003, “burdening an already overwhelmed system and underscoring the reality that the biggest costs of war are not often immediate or visible.”

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Reported By Jack Gregson

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