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Eric Newhouse, Truthout: 'More than half of America s former warriors are returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan with medical and mental problems that need treatment, according to new statistics from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). PTSD was the most common mental health complaint with 197,074 vets receiving treatment, which is about 15 percent of the returning vets ... The VA s real surprise is the low number of diagnoses for traumatic brain injury (TBI), which has become one of the signature injuries in the Iraqi/Afghanistan conflict due to the large number of roadside bombs, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades ... But the VA says only 54,070 vets (a little over 4 percent of the returning vets) qualified for that diagnosis.'

http://www.truth-out.org/half-vets-returning-iraq-and-afghanistan-need-medical-attention/1321369149



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=PTSD
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