Faces of Combat, PTSD and TBI: One Journalist's Crusade to Improve Treatment for Our Veterans

Newhouse, Eric

ISBN 10: 1930461062 / ISBN 13: 9781930461062

Verlag: Issues Press, 2008

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eric Newhouse issues a call to help America s returning warriors in his latest book, Faces of Combat, PTSD and TBI: One Journalist s Crusade to Improve Treatment for Our Veterans. His concern is that one-third to one-half of the 1.6 million men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan can be expected to return home with one or all three emotional disorders post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), or major depression. But the Veterans Administration is already overloaded in treating soldiers from previous conflicts, primarily Vietnam vets who never received the help they needed and deserved.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Newhouse has been a journalist for four decades. The first half of his career was as a reporter, correspondent and bureau chief for The Associated Press, working in Baltimore; New Orleans; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Pierre, S.D.; St.Louis; and Charleston, W. Va.The second half of his career has been with the Great Falls MT Tribune, where he is currently the projects editor. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2000.

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Titel: Faces of Combat, PTSD and TBI: One ...
Verlag: Issues Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Good
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