The Delaware Gazette

Army examining mental health programs

WASHINGTON — The Army inspec­tor gen­eral is con­duct­ing a system-wide review of men­tal health facil­i­ties to deter­mine whether psy­chi­a­trists over­turned diag­noses of post-traumatic stress dis­or­der to save money, a move that comes as the case of a U.S. sol­dier sus­pected of killing 16 Afghan civil­ians has brought fresh atten­tion to the strains of war.

Experts: Soldier might have post-traumatic stress

They are ques­tions already being debated: Did the sol­dier sus­pected of killing Afghan vil­lagers have post-traumatic stress dis­or­der, or PTSD? And did the peo­ple who sent him back to war after he was injured prop­erly deter­mine he was men­tally fit to return?

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