VA Releases Annual Veteran Suicide Prevention Report
The Department of Veterans Affairs recently released the National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report, which analyzes Veteran suicide from 2001 to 2023, the most recent year for which data is available. The report shows there were 6,398 suicides among Veterans in...
Green Jacket Volunteers Help Veterans Succeed in Drug Treatment Courts
Greg Pryer was used to experiencing on-the-job trauma. Pryer had followed a stint in the Marine Corps with a career as a New York City police officer. On the beat in the nation’s largest city was grueling enough. Then came the horrors of Sept. 11, 2001. Pryer turned...
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation offers hope for Veteran Living with Depression
For Army Veteran Shirley Benoit, the battle with depression lasted more than decade. Medications didn’t work and the side effects often made things worse. When she began Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) therapy at VA, she finally found relief. Benoit served a...