Group Wants More Recognition For Soldiers With Post Traumatic Stress
Army Secretary John McHugh will be at Joint Base Lewis-McChord on Monday. He’ll be briefing reporters on the results of an Army-wide review of soldier behavioral health evaluations for post-traumatic...
View ArticleArmy Keeps A Lid On Madigan PTSD Investigation
The Army says it won’t release the investigation into how Madigan Army Medical Center handled some soldiers' diagnoses for post-traumatic stress disorder. The denial comes one week after the Secretary...
View ArticleFour-Legged Warriors Show Signs Of PTSD
For years, PTSD — or post-traumatic stress disorder — has been an issue for military members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.But humans aren't the only ones with problems. Military dogs returning...
View ArticleNew Army Report Finds Trouble With Behavioral Health System
The Army has more than doubled its number of military and civilian behavioral health workers in the past five years, however, a newly released report that examines how the Army evaluates soldiers for...
View ArticleArmy Investigation Clears Madigan Commander
An investigation into improper leadership involvement in diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder at Madigan Army Medical Center has cleared Hospital Commander Col. Dallas Homas of any wrongdoing.
View ArticlePhotographing Midway Island, And Gen. Peter Chiarelli On Brain Injury
Photographing Midway IslandSeattle-based photographer Chris Jordan has traveled around the world to document mass consumption and the waste that results from it. His most recent work is focused on...
View ArticleHelp Is Hard To Get For Veterans After A Bad Discharge
Transcript RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are often boxed into categories, stereotypes. Vets are wounded warriors - maybe they lost an arm or a leg, or suffer from...
View ArticleOther-Than-Honorable Discharge Burdens Like A Scarlet Letter
Eric Highfill spent five years in the Navy, fixing airplanes for special operations forces. His discharge papers show an Iraq campaign medal and an Afghanistan campaign medal, a good-conduct medal, and...
View ArticleFor Veterans, 'Bad Paper' Is A Catch-22 For Treatment
Transcript RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: In many ways, military veterans hold a privileged place in American society, but not all vets have access to what goes along with that privilege. In the past decade of...
View ArticlePath To Reclaiming Identity Steep For Vets With 'Bad Paper'
When Michael Hartnett was getting kicked out of the U.S. Marine Corps, he was too deep into post-traumatic stress disorder, drugs and alcohol to care as his battalion commander explained to the young...
View ArticleHypervigilance And Crowds Complicate Holidays And Life Back Home For Veterans
Steve Scher gets tips from licensed mental health counselor and suicidologist Randi Jensen on how to help combat war veterans get through the holiday season and beyond.
View ArticleNew Program At Harborview Works Toward Universal PTSD Screening
Re-experiencing, avoidance, hyperarousal: these are the three categories of post-traumatic stress disorder as laid out by the National Institute of Mental Health. They commonly go by more common names:...
View ArticleThe Untold Story Of War With Ann Jones
Coming up on Speakers Forum, April 10 at 9:00 p.m.Battle scars are not always visible.Post-traumatic stress disorder affects almost 30 percent of soldiers who serve in Iraq and Afghanistan.Journalist...
View ArticleEx-Ranger Recalls The Friendly Fire That Killed Pat Tillman
Ten years ago Tuesday, former NFL star Pat Tillman was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan. Steven Elliott was one of the Army Rangers who fired on Tillman, and he told his story recently on ESPN's...
View ArticleEducation May Help Insulate The Brain Against Traumatic Injury
A little education goes a long way toward ensuring you'll recover from a serious traumatic brain injury. In fact, people with lots of education are seven times more likely than high school dropouts to...
View ArticleFor Some Vets, Growing Old Triggers PTSD
As veterans from World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam age and enter hospice, we’re learning that some of them, who seemed totally fine all their lives, are experiencing late in life post-traumatic...
View ArticleMilitary Plans To Test Brain Implants To Fight Mental Disorders
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, is launching a $70 million program to help military personnel with psychiatric disorders using electronic devices implanted in the brain.The...
View ArticlePatient Preference In PTSD Treatment Improves Quality Of Life, Cost...
When patients receive treatment for PTSD they normally don’t get asked what kind of therapy they’d like to receive. Often the provider will use the therapy that is most familiar to them.That can...
View ArticleAs Pot Laws Relax, Restrictions On Research Still Tight
Medical marijuana is now legal in nearly half of all U.S. states, but doing research on the drug is harder than one might think. Because of federal laws and regulations, it can take years to get the...
View ArticleIn Auburn, 911 Wants To Know If You’re A Veteran
The computer screen in Officer Andy Gould’s patrol car rhythmically ticks off details of emergencies from dispatch.Gould, a 25-year veteran of the Auburn Police Department, wraps up a burglary and gets...
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