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The War Is Done & the Bill Is Due: TBI and the Price Paid by Vets
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This episode contains descriptions of suicide. Listener discretion is advised.
Traumatic Brain Injuries – the cost of the Global War on Terror is due – passed due – and veterans and families are footing the bill with their lives.
Suicide is a complex issue. And as we are learning, TBIs add to that complexity. One university cohort study showed that veterans who experienced even a mild traumatic brain injury were three times as likely to die by suicide compared to their civilian counterparts.
And as the Global War on Terror fades into the rearview for the public – so with it the cost of those wars. But a small and important section of America continues to foot the bill for the last 20 years – often with their lives, and with the lives of their families as they cope with their absence.
TBI has largely gone unrecognized, untreated, unnoticed, and ignored by the institutions charged with caring for those who bear its weight…as well as the ones who are left picking up the pieces when that load becomes too great to bear at all.
This reporting is based on a three-part Military.com series on TBIs from reporters Patricia Kime and Rebecca Kheel.
Appearing in this episode: Drew F. Lawrence, Kristina, Frank Larkin, Rebecca Kheel, and James LaPorta.
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