A Journey Home: One Marine’s Story

A Journey Home: One Marine’s Story – Nearly one in five veterans suffer from substance abuse and PTSD. Veterans Healing Initiative, a nonprofit, is dedicated to providing veterans of all eras access to treatment for substance abuse and PTSD. The facts: 18 veterans commit suicide every day. On any given night, 300000 veterans are homeless and more than 76% of these vets suffer from substance abuse or a mental health disorder. As many as 35% of wounded troops are addicted to pain medication. Reserve and National Guard don’t have access to the full range of VA benefits. Vets from Iraq and Afghanistan face multiple deployments and shorter breaks between deployments–for these vets, the clock’s ticking. See one Marine’s journey home. Thousands more waiting for treatment. Help us help them at Veterans Healing Initiative, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. To learn more or to donate, click www.vetshealing.org. Thank you.

Special courts aim to keep vets clean, out of jail

Filed under: drug abuse help for veterans

… the Veterans Administration, like addiction treatment and counseling. Through weekly meetings with attorneys, counselors and a veteran mentor, participants get the encouragement that hopefully will help them both stay clean and keep from breaking …
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Smart justice for vets

Filed under: drug abuse help for veterans

They offer people who commit mostly lower-level, nonviolent offenses a chance to get the help they need, while sparing society the enormous human and economic costs of incarceration. In Lucas County, a group of Veterans Administration officials, local …
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