Rethinking the Approach to Veteran Suicides

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To the Editor: The recent article by Kuramoto-Crawford and colleagues is eye-opening. It demonstrated that of the 8,400 adult respondents who had serious thoughts of suicide during the previous year, of those who did not receive mental health treatment, three-fourths did not feel the need for treatment.

More than 1.6 million veterans received mental health treatment from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) during fiscal year 2015.