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Crisis in Army Psychopharmacology and Mental Health Care at Fort Hood

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Stephen M. Stahl
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The recent shootings at Ft. Hood, allegedly by an army psychiatrist, have placed much needed focus on army mental health care. Questions are now being raised as to whether longstanding and severe shortages in the number of mental health professionals in the army may have led authorities to overlook danger signals in this psychiatrist, failing to remove him in order to retain a worker with rare and valuable psychiatric credentials for army service. Whether or not this is the case, examination of mental health care in the army shows a system that is indeed understaffed, under tremendous pressure, and near the breaking point.

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Trends in Psychopharmacology
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CNS Spectrums , Volume 14 , Issue 12 , December 2009 , pp. 677 - 684
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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