Gubernatorial candidates — Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms and Republican Rick Jackson — campaigned in the Atlanta area Tuesday; Data from the U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs show roughly well over half of veterans who died by suicide in 2023 were not diagnosed with or treated for mental illness in the last year of their lives.
Georgia Public Broadcasting · GPB News Radio · September 9, 2026
Keisha Lance Bottoms (left) and Rick Jackson
Credit: The Current
Gubernatorial candidates — Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms and Republican Rick Jackson — campaigned in the Atlanta area Tuesday.
Data from the U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs show roughly well over half of veterans who died by suicide in 2023 were not diagnosed with or treated for mental illness in the last year of their lives.
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