How Ketamine-based clinics are improving veterans’ mental health Ketamine treatments have made enough inroads with mitigating PTSD symptoms that the VA recently expanded its relationship with Ketamine Wellness Centers.By Jon Simkins6 months ago
VA’s opioid treatment program is failing veterans, IG reports VA officials routinely missed opioid use disorder diagnoses when developing treatment plans for personnel leaving the military.By Jaime Moore-Carrillo10 months ago
Explainer: What’s the difference between pandemic, epidemic and outbreak?The difference between these three scenarios of disease spread is a matter of scale.By Rebecca S.B. Fischer, Texas A&M University4 years ago
How big will the coronavirus epidemic be?It might get very, very bad. Here are some ideas on what we can do to contain it.By Maciej F. Boni, Pennsylvania State University4 years ago
The mental health community: A terrible mindsetTo fix the veterans suicide crisis, tackle the problem from a special operations mindset, says the author of this commentary.By Ken Falke4 years ago
Audit finds some military hospitals issued potentially dangerous amounts of opioidsDoD needs to better monitor its physicians and prescriptions, the Department of Defense Inspector General said.By Patricia Kime4 years ago
Quality of life is improving for many injured veterans, but health issues are on the rise as they age, survey saysA new survey from Wounded Warrior Project finds veterans have physical medical limitations but aren't seeking care for them.By Patricia Kime and Leo Shane III5 years ago
No, Lyme disease is not an escaped bioweaponAn op-ed from one of the world's top experts on tick-borne diseases demolishes a conspiracy theory.By Sam Telford, Tufts University5 years ago
VP Pence lauds Coast Guard crew for massive cocaine haulThe Coast Guard cutter Murno returned this week from a three-month drug interdiction deployment in the Eastern Pacific.By Geoff Ziezulewicz5 years ago
Veterans with addiction: Get your life back — for you and your familyIn just the eight years between 2001 and 2009, the number of painkiller prescriptions written by military doctors quadrupled.By Dr. Paul Little5 years ago
Trump’s VA secretary says its not 2009 anymoreIn this op-ed, VA Secretary Robert Wilkie says problems that affected the department have dramatically improved under the Trump administration.By Robert Wilkie5 years ago
DoD and civilian doctors, pharmacies now sharing information about opioid prescriptions, watching for abuseSharing this information can help identify possible opioid abuse in military patients.By Karen Jowers5 years ago