{"id":13397,"date":"2019-06-11T10:51:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T14:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13397"},"modified":"2019-06-11T10:51:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T14:51:39","slug":"coaxing-veterans-into-treatment-to-prevent-suicides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13397","title":{"rendered":"Coaxing Veterans Into Treatment to Prevent Suicides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Christine Vestal for Stateline published by The Pew Charitable Trusts)<\/p>\n<p>CHARLESTON, S.C. \u2014 To Army veteran Everett Brockington, 52, there\u2019s no mystery about why so many veterans die by suicide: \u201cThey\u2019ve seen things and done things that they can\u2019t handle. And they\u2019ve lost too many of their close friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most of the veterans Brockington knows rely on one another for support instead of seeking mental health services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe talk to each other about our problems all the time,\u201d Brockington said. But he admitted, \u201cIt would be better if we had someone to talk to who knew what they were doing.\u201d\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewtrusts.org\/en\/research-and-analysis\/blogs\/stateline\/2019\/06\/11\/coaxing-veterans-into-treatment-to-prevent-suicides?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=73557497&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_nTmcskqtdoHguti8gTUE_WByd1sSYzvU26g-ayw79terUyGkRqtOx07S93KjbkkyexxCHzl3K04GTI6d8qt-EqLiV7A&amp;_hsmi=73557497\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Pew-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3900\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Pew-Logo-300x43.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"43\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Pew-Logo-300x43.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Pew-Logo.png 388w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Christine Vestal for Stateline published by The Pew Charitable Trusts) CHARLESTON, S.C. \u2014 To Army veteran Everett Brockington, 52,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13398,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13397\/revisions\/13398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}