Published by The Herald-Dispatch Every day in America, 20 people who dedicated their lives to serving and protecting the country commit suicide. While that number is down from recent years, Brian Nimmo, director of the Huntington VA Medical Center, said one is too...
Published by Star Tribune A researcher for the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs hospital has been awarded a $12.5 million grant to compare approaches to pain management. The study comes as the VA struggles for answers about how to deal with veterans with chronic pain. It...
Published by the Las Vegas Review-Journal For five years, Arthur Maheu took morphine three times a day to ease intense pain in his lower back. He tried another opioid, Vicodin, but stopped using it because it caused an allergic reaction. Maheu, 63, didn’t like taking...
Published by Task & Purpose The VA’s pain schools offer a way to treat chronic pain that doesn’t rely on prescription drugs like opioids. For veterans dealing with chronic pain, the pain program at a VA medical center in Bedford, Massachusetts, offers an...
Published by Science Blog In a Veterans Affairs study of more than 300 enlisted Army National Guard and Army Reserve members who had deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, a majority reported symptoms consistent with a condition known as chronic multisymptom illness (CMI)....
Published by PBS As the United States struggles to deal with what’s been called the worst drug crisis in American history, its veterans have also been caught up in the opioid epidemic. About 60 percent of those returning from deployments in the Middle East, and 50...