Amy Turner, The Times of London UK. June 27, 2008. At last the incurably traumatized may be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. And controversially, ecstasy may be key to taming their demons.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. May 20, 2008. This appalling denial of care to wounded service men and women is part of a larger health system that's failing all of us.
Mike Connery, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. May 15, 2008. The VA is ordering its staff not to diagnose veterans with PTSD, short-changing our soldiers and making worse an already under-treated condition.
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. April 29, 2008. An activist travels to the DoD's annual suicide prevention conference, only to find the military brass living in a parallel universe.
Stacy Bannerman, Foreign Policy in Focus. March 25, 2008. Depression and suicidal thoughts aren't limited to vets with PTSD; family members may experience it as well.
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. March 14, 2008. Army studies say one in three soldiers will return from Iraq with significant mental health problems, but the system isn't there to help them.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. February 11, 2008. An experimental study that treats PTSD veterans with the drug MDMA could make life after war a lot more livable.
Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon AlterNet: PEEK. January 15, 2008. Unlike the majority of civilians who commit murder, the majority of the 121 veterans documented by the Times reporters had no criminal history.
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. November 26, 2007. The military refuses to come clean, insisting the high rates are due to "personal problems," not experience in combat.
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. November 11, 2007. Americans have been effectively insulated from the human cost of our wars. That's not an accident; it's policy.
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. June 25, 2007. The Department of Defense recently announced that it was hiring additional mental health professionals to deal with the stream of traumatized vets returning from the occupation of Iraq. A widow of an earlier war warns that the effort may be too little and too late.
Stacy Bannerman, Foreign Policy in Focus. March 15, 2007. Soldiers who have served in Iraq are killing themselves at higher rates than in any other war in which such data have been tracked. To understand why, just look at the system.
