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Health Promotion, Risk Reduction & Suicide Prevention Report |
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They not just statistics; they are our Soldiers who may be stressed, feel isolated, become dependent on drugs or just need more time to recover. The good news is our efforts to emphasize the importance of behavioral health are working. This hard-hitting report is based on what we know and what you have helped us identify. It is designed to inform and educate, spark discussion, hone compliance on existing policy and provide an azimuth for the way ahead. |
Debunking the Myth of the 'Addicted Army' page 22 of the vfwmagazine
By Jeremy Kuzmarov
For three decades, the news media and Hollywood conditioned the American public to believe that “drug-crazed” Vietnam vets “lost” the war and posed a threat to society upon their return. Nothing could be further from the truth, as this author points out.
War Trauma Resources
By Raymond M. Scurfield, DSW, LCSW
Advice for locating support and counseling resources for anyone struggling with deployment and post-deployment Issues. PDF
"SERVE, SUPPORT, SIMPLIFY" The President's Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors: PDF Website
Executive Order #03062007: For establishing a Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors and a Task Force on Returning Global War on Terror Heroes PDF
Past Reports by Commissions, Task Forces,
and Committees:
2007 Institute of Medicine. PTSD Compensation and Military Service. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11870&page=R1
Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health. An Achievable Vision: Report of the Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health.
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Institute of Medicine: A 21st Century System for Evaluating Veterans for Disability Benefits. Washington, DC: National Academies Press. Available at
http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11885
President's Task Force Report: Returning Global War on Terror Heroes. Available at: http://www1.va.gov/taskforce/
Independent Review Group: Rehabilitative Care and Administrative Processes at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and National Naval Medical Center.
(aka, the "West and Marsh Commission")
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL34140.pdf
Iraq & War-Zone Psychiatric Casualties
[Presentation Version]
Download Word Document.
Media Reports and Articles:
Beyond Walter Reed: The Full Tragedy of Lessons Unlearned From Vietnam to Iraq PDF
University of Southern Mississippi
Does the widespread reaction to the recent expose at Walter Reed and the neglect of some of our nation’s physically wounded Iraq veterans indicate that our nation has had a wake-up call to what the full impact of war entails—and what is required to address it? As a Vietnam Veteran with a 25-year leadership career with the VA, please forgive my skepticism. The underlying institutional problems go far beyond any benefits from sacking high-ranking officials; cosmetic cover-up and pest control treatment at one military facility; and renewed time-limited Congressional oversight that eventually dissipates.
Vet Looking for Helicopter to Help Iraq Soldiers Recover
Veterans Today
The 58-year-old says the adrenaline rush from sky diving was a sort of
catharsis for post-traumatic stress disorder, the aftermath of war for
thousands of Veterans then and now. The Department of Veterans Affairs
reports PTSD affects nearly 18 percent of Iraq war Veterans.
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Author/vet Counsels Soldiers on PTSD
Army Times
DALLAS — When America’s wounded come back from war, carried off airplanes and shuttled to military hospitals, no one understands better than Allen Clark what they will face in the coming months and years.
Troops’ Mental Health Struggles
Washington Post
Army Spec. Jeans Cruz helped capture Saddam Hussein. When he came home to the Bronx, important people called him a war hero and promised to help him start a new life.
Trauma and the Mind-Body Connection
Psychiatric Times
Phebe Tucker, MD and Elizabeth A. Foote, MD
(PTSD) occurs in approximately 8% of adults during their lifetime, with different trauma types associated with varying rates of illness.
Military Psychiatric-Care Overhaul Urged
Washington Post
Top officials in the Bush administration and on Capitol Hill said yesterday that the federal government must move quickly to revamp the nation's system for identifying and caring for military personnel with the invisible wounds of mental illness.
Vet Group Blasts PTSD care
Honolulu Advertiser
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — Marines returning from war with post-traumatic stress disorder are reluctant to seek help for their condition and when they do, they are sometimes stigmatized by their leaders, a pair of investigators from a national Veterans advocacy group found.
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The Real Cost of the War A special report: Why is the U.S. ignoring battle-scarred soldiers?  Warning Signs, Triggers and Coping Strategiesby COL Kathy Platoni (Psy.D.), 307th Medical Group |
| Guidelines and Materials |
 Guidelines for Vets' Families Important advice for families of Veterans to help them cope and overcome stress. |
 War Trauma: Lessons Unlearned from Vietnam to Iraqby Dr. Raymond M. Scurfield, DSW, LCSW Order the Book |
 Task Force On Mental Health Report Department of Defense PDF Format |
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