A study published in the January issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders suggests that vets with depression are at higher risk of commiting suicide during two critical periods: after discharge from a psychiatric hospital and after beginning treatment with an antidepressant.

Dr. Marcia Valenstein, a clinical psychiatrist at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, and her team collected data from 887,859 VA hospital patients

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