Nevada In Crisis Over Veterans Suicides

The suicide rate among military veterans in Nevada has reached “crisis” proportions, especially among younger vets returning from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a report Monday in the Las Vegas Sun.
 
The Sun, reporting on new data from the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, noted the suicide rate among state veterans from 2008 through 2010 was 2.5 times higher than the rate for all Nevadans “and nearly quadruple the national nonveteran suicide rate.”

The state recorded 1,545 Nevada suicides between 2008 and 2010. Of that number, nearly a quarter, or 373 of them, were veterans.