Estimating the number of suicides among Vietnam veterans

DA Pollock, P Rhodes, CA Boyle, P Decoufle and DL McGee
Center for Environmental Health and Injury Control, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA 30333.

Unconfirmed reports that 50,000 or more Vietnam veterans have committed suicide give the impression that these veterans are at exceedingly high risk of suicide compared with other veterans and nonveterans of the same age. On the basis of projections from two population-based mortality studies, the authors estimate that fewer than 9,000 suicides occurred among all Vietnam veterans from the time of discharge through the early 1980s. The sixfold or greater relative risk of suicide implied by the unsubstantiated suicide death tolls is also demonstrated to be incompatible with the findings of epidemiologic studies of mortality risk among Vietnam veterans.

 My opinion:

this articul is very full of datas that make me coming back in the mouvie catcher with robert deniro.
It s a similar problem. Its very strange and i wonder when i read about an high percentage of suicide of soldiers when they came back home instead of the number suicide in that countries during da war.
how could it be possible?
what about the phsichic assistance during the war done by dedicated operator?
what about all the fear that this guys bring with them when they keep a machinegun? they risk to accumulate everything in their mind, and coming back home near their dear, find only sadness, depression …its orrible

ff

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