Struggling with the psychological effects of serving in four combat tours and an undiagnosed brain injury, Larkin died by suicide on a Sunday morning in 2017 dressed in a SEAL Team shirt with the medals he earned in service next to him.
Contingency Management uses reward techniques to bolster abstinence from drug or alcohol use. A webinar by the Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association called contingency management “the greatest unused treatment” for opioid use disorder.” The organization noted the technique’s effectiveness for treating addictions
There are several life skills that a horse can teach better than a person. Equine therapy lowers your blood pressure and heart rate, alleviates stress and reduces symptoms of anxiety and depression. It can also helps people struggling with addictions or mental
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Increasing numbers of Veterans are dying from heroin and synthetic opioids. There is a pressing need to find and provide care to veterans who need help for use of non-prescription opioids, whether or not they are also taking prescription opioids. “Mental and
Over the past six years alone, 45,000 Veterans and active duty service members died by suicide—more deaths than the total number of combat deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. Go to:
Female service members play a pivotal role in U.S. military operations. Their responses to those experiences may be distinct from those of their male counterparts. Incident rates of mental health diagnoses are higher among females than males. ` Read:
Sebastian Junger’s piece points out that even though fewer soldiers experience direct combat in war (fewer than 10%), PTSD rates among veterans is almost 25%. The trauma driving PTSD is not just the horrors of combat, he says, but the shock of
