Veteran talks about stress disorder
I didn t have issues. There were just stupid people around me doing stupid things, Eddie Black told about 50 people at Southwestern Oregon Community College on Tuesday night. That s how Black felt when he returned home from serving in Baghdad, Iraq,...
3.0K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 114.0

Extreme sports provide therapy for soldiers
FORT LEWIS, Wash. Sgt. Sylvia Portillo went first. Secured with elastic cords to a railroad bridge more than 200 feet over a gorge south of Mount St. Helens, Portillo s mission was to dive over the edge. She pretended to throw up, getting a nervous...
6.5K - Jul. 29, 2009; scored 57.0

Project aims to help troubled veterans
COOS BAY They are warriors. They see themselves as strong. They don t realize or don t want to believe they need help. Veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder discover months or years later it takes more than time and a few drin...
3.7K - Jun. 23, 2009; scored 412.0

VA doctor goes to bat for veteran denied benefits over AWOL
Jolene Guzman, Staff Writer COOS BAY When Stacy McLain volunteered to go to Vietnam, he was a teenager a 17-year-old eager to serve his country. I wanted to do the right thing, he said. Two years later, he returned to his country a man and a d...
5.9K - May. 23, 2009; scored 133.0

Research looks at PTSD and addiction
WASHINGTON Reaching for a cigarette to cope with a flashback is all too common among sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder. The nicotine hit may feel good but scientists say its brain action probably makes their PTSD worse in the long run. He...
5.5K - Feb. 9, 2009; scored 1000.0

Groups fight Oregon National Guard deployments
SALEM (AP) Peace, labor and veterans groups used opening day of the Obama administration to petition the Legislature to provide Gov. Ted Kulongoski with the authority to withhold Oregon Army National Guard soldiers from returning to Iraq and Afghan...
2.0K - Jan. 22, 2009; scored 57.0

Pentagon: Purple Heart won't be awarded for PTSD
WASHINGTON (AP) The Pentagon has decided it will not give the Purple Heart, the prestigious medal awarded to service members wounded or killed in action, to sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder. The Defense Department has determined that bas...
1.2K - Jan. 8, 2009; scored 381.0