PENTAGON SPENT OVER $4 BILLION ON MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT BETWEEN 2007 AND 2012

UPDATE

Just one more indication that what I have been saying all along was right and resilience training does not work for a reason.

News Medical Net
Researchers review limited literature available on PTSD prevention
Published on August 26, 2013

Implications of the review show PTSD prevention techniques are plausible; however, the researchers admit an immediate path to PTSD prevention is a long while away.

Actually if they read my book THE WARRIOR SAW, SUICIDES AFTER WAR, they would have known that it is more than that considering the DOD, the VA and other government agencies have been funding, thanks to congress, program after program that have produced the highest suicide year on record. When the rate went up, so did spending.

PENTAGON SPENT OVER $4 BILLION ON MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT BETWEEN 2007 AND 2012
The Congressional Research Service just put a price tag on the mental health costs of the long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: about $4.5 billion between 2007 and 2012. The Defense Department spent $958 million on mental health treatment in 2012, roughly double the $468 million it spent in 2007.

Eighty-nine percent of spending on mental disorder treatment between 2007 and 2012 -- approximately $4 billion -- went for active duty service members. Over the same time frame, the military health system spent about $461 million on mental health care treatment for activated Guard and Reserve members.

Of the nearly $1 billion the military medical system spent in fiscal 2012 on mental disorder treatments for active duty and activated National Guard and reserve members, CRS said more than half of the costs, about $567 million, were for outpatient active duty mental health care.

Overall, approximately 63 percent of mental disorder treatment costs were for outpatient treatment, 31 percent for for inpatient treatment, and 7 percent for pharmacy costs, CRS said.

These costs reflect grim underlying statistics, according to the Aug. 8 report, “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Other Mental Health Problems in the Military: Oversight Issues for Congress.” Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists obtained and posted it on his Secrecy News Blog today.
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