Help NAMI Tell Congress to Help New Veterans Keep the Mental Health Medications They Need!
When someone is in treatment for a mental illness, it is common to go through several different trials of medication until they find the one that helps them feel better. It can take time to find a medicine that works for you. The slightest change could set someone back or even cause further illness. Now imagine if you are a service member who has found that right combination. You are feeling better and your medication is working. The way things stand now, if you decide to transition out of service and into veteran status, your medication might not transfer with you.
This is unacceptable.
With an alarmingly high suicide rate of 22 veterans dying each day and countless others struggling, we simply cannot allow for delays in treatment, endless appeals or the risk of being switched away from a proven effective medication for serious conditions such as depression, anxiety or psychosis. Our veterans deserve better.
Write a letter to your congressman, ask them to co-sponsor H.R. 2123 the Enhancing Veterans Access to Treatment Act. Tell them it is not ok to take away a medication that works for a service member simply because they transitioned out of service.
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‘high suicide rate of 22 veterans dying each day’
OUCH !
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no shit!!! no problem for government. ask somebody to give their life and everything ok when they get!!!! hot topic for me.
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Suicide rates have risen here too.
Mostly young people.
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The last 10-15 years have taken a toll. I get so upset when some talking head acts like 4 deployments is no problem. Our Government made so many promises it didn’t keep. I’m glad some organizations jumped in and made it happen.
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