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Female Soldiers Know: Sexual Assault Can Lead to PTSD
May 26, 2008 – Last month I attended a presentation on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, at the Anchorage Veterans Administration Clinic. PowerPoint slides provided a definition of PTSD and common causes of this disorder: IEDs, seeing the bodies of … Continue reading
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June 2 Update: VCS Brings VA’s PTSD Crisis into National Spotlight
As Americans focus on summer travel plans, Veterans for Common Sense keeps fighting to publicize and fix issues you care about. In 2002, VCS warned that VA was unprepared for casualties. Now, VA is treating 300,000 patients, inluding 75,000 with … Continue reading
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‘Virtual Iraq’ Used to Treat PTSD
May 19, 2008 – In November, 2004, when he was nineteen years old, a marine I’ll call Travis Boyd found himself about to rush the roof of the tallest building in the northern end of Falluja in the midst of … Continue reading
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VA Ignores PTSD in Women
May 27, 2008 – As a female soldier or Marine, you prepare for service with a lot of training with your squad, a lot of extra time in the gym, a lot of mental and physical preparation. But nothing could … Continue reading
Obama Outlines Broad Plan to Correct Lapses in VA Services for Montanans Suffering From PTSD
May 28, 2008, Missoula, MT – Senator Barack Obama released a report today on the major difficulties faced by Montana veterans in obtaining treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and outlined a broad agenda of investments and reforms to improve Montana’s … Continue reading
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Newspaper Editorial: Overblown? VA Secretary James Peake Should Think Twice About Stigmatizing PTSD
My 30, 2008 – Secretary of Veterans Affairs James Peake suggested during a visit to Quinhagak that concerns about post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, and traumatic brain injury, or TBI, are overblown. He likened some of the head injuries to … Continue reading
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VA Secretary Peake Stigmatizes Veterans with PTSD
May 25, 2008 – Sen. Ted Stevens warned of a “mass exodus” from the military Saturday if the so-called 21st Century GI Bill goes into law without major changes. The Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 passed the Senate … Continue reading
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Four Veterans Taking PTSD Drugs Die in Sleep in West Virginia
May 24, 2008 – A Putnam County veteran who was taking medication prescribed for post-traumatic stress disorder died in his sleep earlier this month, in circumstances similar to the deaths of three other area veterans earlier this year. Derek Johnson, … Continue reading
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Wartime Active Duty Military PTSD Cases Jumped Nearly 50 Percent in 2007
May 27, 2008 – The number of troops diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder jumped by roughly 50 percent in 2007, the most violent year so far in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Pentagon records show. In the first time … Continue reading
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Editorial Column: VA Busted Again Over Poor Diagnosis and Mistreatment of PTSD Vets
May 19, 2008, Salem, Oregon – Maybe it was fate, perhaps it is what many refer to as “Murphy’s Law”; either way the spirit of the Veteran’s Administration reared its ugly head last week when an email in a few … Continue reading
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