250+ new patients a day at Va hospitals and clinics - wow!

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http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/index.php/veterans-category-articles/1216-paul-sullivan-and-lauren-hohle


More Than 425,000 Iraq and Afghanistan War Veteran Patients Treated at VA


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September 9, 2009, Washington, DC – According to government reports obtained exclusively by Veterans for Common Sense, more than 250 new, first-time Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran patients flood into Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals and clinics every day. After eight years and two wars, VA has treated more than 425,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans.

While the press and public are often focused on the more than 5,000 deaths from the two wars, a tidal wave of wounded, injured, and ill continue flooding into VA, with no end in sight. Beginning today, VCS starts publishing official VA reports obtained by VCS using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). You can view our FOIA archives at our web site: www.VeteransForCommonSense.org.

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sigh

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[happyslug]

2. And this is NOT counting the New Vietnam Veterans.

Delayed onset of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSS) on Vietnam Vets (1982-1989 study):
http://www.springerlink.com/content/v588117553130403/

Study that most Veterans with PTSS do not report it for at least a year AFTER they leave the service:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/158034.php


But Sullivan says the epidemic might not be most virulent among veterans from the two current wars, but from Vietnam-era veterans. He says many Vietnam veterans he has spoken to tell him that seeing images of the war in Iraq on television and in newspapers has triggered memories and trauma.
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=121926671416052100

RAND study on PTSS and Iraq and Afghanistan veterans:
http://www.rand.org/news/press/2008/04/17/

Other RAD studies on Veterans:
http://www.rand.org/multi/military/veterans/

Study tying PTSS from Combat with Sexual Aggression:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122505010/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

VFW report on Vietnam era vets and PTSS today:
http://www.vfw.org/index.cfm?fa=news.magDtl&dtl=1&mid=4345

More than a generation after 15 percent of Vietnam vets returned with post-traumatic stress disorder, the illness generally carries less of a stigma and has better-defined standards of treatment now.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/265211