What made these cases so difficult, according to the medical team members who spoke via telephone this week, was the mass casualty nature of the event.
Cognitive processing therapy and prolonged exposure therapy fail to help up to two-thirds of patients with service-connected post-traumatic stress disorder.
A bill introduced two months ago that would give veterans the opportunity to train service dogs to reduce the effects of mental health issues has yet to come to a vote, even though it should be a “no-brainer,” one of the Republican co-sponsors said Tuesday.
The Polar Security Cutters are designed to conduct search and rescue, maritime law enforcement, environmental response and national defense patrol missions in often frozen waters.