Let's continue our look at military veterans in Michigan. Yesterday on the show, we talked about the disconnect between saying that we want to help veterans and actually putting policy into place that does that.
Today, we turned our focus to mental health.
Data from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs estimates about 22 vets a day are committing suicide.
And it's estimated one in five veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
There are dozens of programs the military has set up to help treat the mental illnesses and troubles vets are suffering.
But a panel of experts studied programs from the U.S. Department of Defense and came to a very unsettling conclusion: There is no evidence these programs actually work.
The report shows the programs were not created from evidence-based research, and do not have an evaluation process to see if they are effective or not.
Kenneth Warner chaired the research panel. He's also in the Department of Health Management and Policy in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan.
*Listen to the interview above.
