Friends of NIDA, Congressional Briefing: Substance Abuse and the Military Community

Friends of NIDA, Congressional Briefing: Substance Abuse and the Military Community – Friends of NIDA hosted a congressional brief titled, “Military Personnel, Veterans and their Families: How Substance Abuse Research is Effecting Positive Cha…

Chuck Norris: The Unseen Wounds and Warriors of War

Filed under: drug abuse help for veterans

More than 600,000 troops have returned from tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, resulting in increased rates of drug abuse, alcoholism, domestic violence, chronic depression and …
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Montgomery County Veterans Court receives 000 from commission

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They are long-term, judicially supervised, multi-phase courts designed to assist persons who have served (or are currently serving) in the military, who have been charged with a criminal offense, who are at high risk for reoffending absent intensive …
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Charleston-area motorcycle club, Warhorse Brotherhood, raises funds for …

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When a van that takes veterans to drug and alcohol abuse classes broke down, a local motorcycle club came to the rescue. The 15-passenger van transports veterans from Veterans Villas, a transitional-housing program at the former Naval Base, to the …
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Some Missouri success stories

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And we now have three regional treatment courts serving the unique needs of our military veterans. One success story is Kennedy, who served in the U.S. Army in the 1980s and who, a decade later, fell into drug and alcohol abuse, leading to multiple …
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