Galileo affair

When you sustain injuries due to an accident, you are not the only one who is suffering. You whole family suffers along with you. This is because though you suffer from pains and sufferings due to injuries, your family suffers from the collateral damages. There is loss of income along with the piling up of the medical and rehabilitation bills. Many times there is also incapacitating stress and anxiety. Though as an accident victim, you are entitled for compensation for you injuries, pain and…

Treatment of co-morbid alcoholism and PTSD in veterans ? comparison with other drug dependencies 11-15-16 Loggins, K., Gutierrez, C.A., PharmD, Wilcox, R.E., PhD.* Target: Journal of Addiction and Preventive Medicine ABSTRACT Combat instigated PTSD is one of the more complicated psychological conditions that occur in the modern world. To add to the complications of treatment, PTSD is often accompanied by other psychological comorbidities and substance use disorders; of which the most…

NITRO, W.Va. — On a rainy Friday afternoon, Dave Riley was inside the Nitro World War I Museum, eating lunch pizza, checking his phone and talking to a handful of residences. It was a day before he was supposed to deliver a keynote speech at an event honoring the city's Living Memorial Park. Nitro, which was founded during World War I, was holding the event has part of its dentinal celebration. Riley, who is from, Mobile, Alabama, was visiting the city to take part in its dedication of the…

There are many factors that affected the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA); from political, industrial, legal and economics together these external environment factors affected the way that veterans received their services. I will begin to describe how the VA was formed and illustrate how all the factors make what it is called today the Department of Veterans Affairs. The United States has the greatest complete system of assistance for Veterans in the world, this system goes back to…

For years the VA has been a profiting section of the government that wastes more money than it spends. The Washington post said “The Department of Veterans Affairs has been spending at least $6 billion a year in violation of federal contracting rules to pay for medical care and supplies, wasting taxpayer money and putting veterans at risk, according to an internal memo written by the agency’s senior official…

Critical review of Sharon Dekel et al,2013, ‘Posttraumatic stress disorder and depressive symptoms: Joined or independent sequelae of trauma?’, Journal of Psychiatric Research 54 (2014) page 64-69. Dekel et al conducted a study “addresses this issue by investigating associations between probable PTSD and depressive symptoms in a prospective, longitudinal sample of combat veterans.” (Dekel et al, 2014) This research was aimed to provide further evidence in association between PTSD and Depression…

Department of Veterans’ Affairs is the 14th created Department in the Cabinet. Officially created as a cabinet department in 1930, the Department of Veterans’ affairs works to provide services for the Veterans of the United States Military. Along with providing many services to veterans, the Department of Veterans’ Affairs also runs every national cemetery, except for Arlington, which the Department of the Army, a subclass of the Department of Defense, runs. The Veterans’ Affairs Department’s…

Heroes for Our Heroes As I was surfing the web, I saw an article titled “Vets Adopt Pets". This article caught my attention because I believed that by vets it meant veterinarians what it actually means is veterans. According to this article, there are organizations that train dogs to be companions for our veterans who suffer post-traumatic stress disorder. According to an article in the newspaper, Blade, PTSD is a disorder caused by traumatic experiences such as war, abuse, accidents, and…

As all wars are the same, many countries have had to deal with the after affects they have on soldiers and the wider community. The First World War was, however, different in the fact that it saw many men dealing with a mental issue that did not yet have a name or processes aimed at getting it under control, through medication and therapy, like there are today. Even though there have been many suicidal attempts and deaths of ex-servicemen, it cannot be said that there is a causal relationship…

Yoga has helped individuals relax with the help of different body postures, breathing exercises and meditation. One individuals story that really stood out to me was about a veteran who suffered from severe PTSD. His name was Dan Nevins and he was an Iraq war veteran and lost both legs, one leg due to an explosive device and the other one due to an infection. He endured 36 surgeries for his legs, and was also at the time going through a divorce. His life was falling apart. His PTSD was gradually…