Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with ptsd www.salem-news.com 2010 A solid majority of voters nationwide favor legalizing and regulating marijuana similar to the way alcohol and tobacco cigarettes are currently regulated. Most also don’t believe it should be a crime for people to smoke marijuana in the privacy of their own homes. http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/pot-survey.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/pot-survey.php Tue, 22 May 2012 19:34:00 PDT The Transitional Justice Coordination Group appreciates the ten-year achievements in government-building, and other fields that have been reached with the participation of the people by the government and the international community for fulfillment of democracy. However, those trends have not taken root in our country... http://salem-news.com/articles/may192012/chicago-conference.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may192012/chicago-conference.php Sat, 19 May 2012 20:58:00 PDT In the week Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, he ordered bombing attacks on Yemen, killing a reported 63 people, 28 of them children. When Obama recently announced he supported same-sex marriage, American planes had not long blown 14 Afghan civilians to bits. http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/gay-marriage-jp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/gay-marriage-jp.php Fri, 18 May 2012 04:06:00 PDT I just heard from somewhere that somebody wants to change PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, to Post Traumatic Stress Injury or PTSI. I don’t get it! We already have (Post) Traumatic Brain Injury or TBI. http://salem-news.com/articles/may162012/ptsd-pot-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may162012/ptsd-pot-pl.php Wed, 16 May 2012 20:26:00 PDT A new article in US News & World Report explores the Oregon Gubernatorial race and Dwight Holton's hardline position over medical marijuana. Mr. Holton has stated that he supports the state's voter-endorsed program, but I think that might be a wee stretch of the truth from Dwight. http://salem-news.com/articles/may122012/dwight-holton-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may122012/dwight-holton-tk.php Sat, 12 May 2012 01:59:00 PDT An en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued its decision in our case brought on behalf of veterans suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). In its decision, the Ninth Circuit held that a federal statute closes the courthouse door to constitutional claims by veterans. http://salem-news.com/articles/may102012/vuft-newsletter.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may102012/vuft-newsletter.php Thu, 10 May 2012 16:01:00 PDT Since joining in solidarity with OCCUPY MARINES, we have been hearing and seeing amazing things. One is a weekly TV show that is being produced from two points; El Paso and Tehran; yes you read that right. OWS Week is the professional weekly roundup of OCCUPY News and Marines and other Veterans and the graphics, the tempo, everything about it is interesting and highly informative. http://salem-news.com/articles/may072012/ows-week-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may072012/ows-week-tk.php Mon, 07 May 2012 20:40:00 PDT Does America do anything these days with a sincere purpose? Afghanistan's violence is our doing; it is a result of the contrast between stated intentions and reality. It's strangely sad that the only time of peace that this country has known in modern time, was a result of Communism. http://salem-news.com/articles/may072012/abandoned-afghanistan.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may072012/abandoned-afghanistan.php Mon, 07 May 2012 01:34:00 PDT Documents just obtained by the PCJF show massive nationwide monitoring, surveillance and information sharing between the Department of Homeland Security and local authorities in response to Occupy. The PCJF made a series of FOIA demands regarding law enforcement involvement in the Occupy Crackdown. http://salem-news.com/articles/may042012/occupy-monitoring.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may042012/occupy-monitoring.php Fri, 04 May 2012 22:40:00 PDT “The Deadly Connection: Endless War and Economic Crisis” is the subject of Bruce Gagnon's six-city tour of Washington State. Gagnon is the Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, and long-time member of Veterans For Peace. http://salem-news.com/articles/april242012/gagnon-speech-le.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april242012/gagnon-speech-le.php Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:01:00 PDT Two days before the NYPD’s eviction of the Occupy Wall Street encampment from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, Brookfield Properties' security was in direct communications and sharing information with federal Police in DC, and communicating with other cities. This, according to newly released internal documents from the National Park Service. http://salem-news.com/articles/april232012/occupy-crackdown.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april232012/occupy-crackdown.php Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:13:00 PDT Phil Leveque, who fought in the 89th Infantry Division (some members shown to the right), wrote, We were driven by the belief that we had to defeat an obscene enemy to get to go home. It was General Ridgeway of the Paratroopers said with conviction... "The best military weapon is the American Infantryman." http://salem-news.com/articles/april232012/price-war-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april232012/price-war-pl.php Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:39:00 PDT Oregon is one of the 16 states which has legal medical marijuana but not for PTSD. This puts a terribly physiologic burden on the group which has the most victims who also have the worst, most severe symptoms with high suicide rates and maybe as many as 300,000 homeless... http://salem-news.com/articles/april202012/ptsd-doctor-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april202012/ptsd-doctor-pl.php Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:46:00 PDT In 1945, Barney Bain was discharged from the U.S. Army Air Corps, at 23 one of the youngest Lt Colonels in history, with 50 missions in B-17's, a brace of English girl friends and a DFC. He also had a soupcon of post-traumatic stress disorder, which hadn't yet been discovered by Army medics or anybody else. http://salem-news.com/articles/april202012/barney-bain-ba.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april202012/barney-bain-ba.php Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:12:00 PDT We announced this week that Salem-News.com is now working with Marines from the Occupy movement, who have taken to the streets in defense of civil liberties, calling for accountability in government, particularly with regard to police. We are collectively excited about this new relationship; strength and peace are meeting at the crossroads. http://salem-news.com/articles/april202012/occupy-marines-le.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april202012/occupy-marines-le.php Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:48:00 PDT Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki today announced that the department would add approximately 1,600 mental health clinicians. This includes nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers as well as nearly 300 support staff to its existing workforce of 20,590 mental health staff. http://salem-news.com/articles/april192012/vets-mental-health.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april192012/vets-mental-health.php Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:33:00 PDT Did you know that 10 to 18% of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans may have post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD? Do you know the signs and symptoms and where to turn for help? A team leader at the Salem Oregon Veterans Health Administration, will speak on these issues and answer questions at an informative lecture on our returning veterans and post-traumatic stress disorder on Thursday, in Stayton. http://salem-news.com/articles/april172012/ptsd-stayton.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april172012/ptsd-stayton.php Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:20:00 PDT One of the most vivid memories I have of my service in the U.S. Senate was of an early Democratic caucus. It was in January of 1973, not long after President Richard Nixon and his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, had ordered the carpet bombing of Hanoi in an effort to strong arm the Vietnamese into surrendering. http://salem-news.com/articles/april132012/no-me-war-ja.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april132012/no-me-war-ja.php Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:24:00 PDT There is very much widespread ignorance about what PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) is all about. There has been a litany of "homesickness", "miss their mothers", "miss their girlfriends". PTSD is the fear of death while it is erupting all around a soldier. http://salem-news.com/articles/april132012/infantry-death-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april132012/infantry-death-pl.php Fri, 13 Apr 2012 05:34:00 PDT The niece stood in the darkened stairwell of the Winbrook Houses, listening, as 20 feet away five police officers yelled at her uncle, who had locked himself in his apartment. It was 5:25 on a chill November morning. The officers banged loud and hard, demanding that her 68-year-old uncle open his door. “He was begging them to leave him alone,” she recalls. http://salem-news.com/articles/april062012/marine-killed.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april062012/marine-killed.php Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:55:00 PDT The University of Maryland Carey School of Law Clinical Program and Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class, are hosting a Discussion Panel on April 12th focusing on the viability and implications of treating veterans suffering from PTSD with medicinal marijuana. Post traumatic Stress Disorder is a devastating condition that afflicts many of our veterans. http://salem-news.com/articles/april042012/ptsd-pot-forum.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april042012/ptsd-pot-forum.php Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:08:00 PDT I could not believe that the military, Army, Navy, Marine Corps & Air Force and VA could be more viciously cruel than they have been to our war veterans. The VVA, Vietnam Veterans of America, have finally been able to get into the cesspool of the records of this continuing mind destroying practice against ALL of our PTSD destroyed, battle veterans. They actually found that the Navy and Air Force were the worst offenders. After the egregious scandal at Fort Lewis, Washington, it’s difficult to believe that things could be worse. http://salem-news.com/articles/april032012/ptsd-betrayal-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april032012/ptsd-betrayal-pl.php Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:16:00 PDT As a former Private front-line Combat Infantryman with a college degree I am extremely troubled by what appears to be going on now in the Army. It was bad enough for me and my buddies and I in WWII but this sounds toxic with more lethal consequences in present Army camps than we are having in two current wars. http://salem-news.com/articles/march212012/bayles-malpractice-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march212012/bayles-malpractice-pl.php Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:29:00 PDT The unfortunate act of Sgt Bales in Afghanistan is horrible in the extreme but it was not only expected but preventable. Infantry Sgt Bales is/was a gung ho soldier by any measure. I was an infantry Private under the likes of Sgt Bales and know a real soldier when I see or hear about one. He did three tours in Iraq performing excellently and getting head wounds and part of his foot shot off. After all that, getting sent back into a hot combat zone was totally irresponsible. http://salem-news.com/articles/march182012/infantry-bales_pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march182012/infantry-bales_pl.php Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:45:00 PDT Most readers won’t believe this but the bemedaled colonels and generals far behind the front lines have virtually no concept of what it’s like to live, sleep and survive in the mud or a muddy foxhole with little sleep. It's usually accompanied by little food or water, and virtually none of the small mercies of normal life. http://salem-news.com/articles/march182012/dogfaces-battle_pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march182012/dogfaces-battle_pl.php Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:29:00 PDT Several Latin American presidents called for an outright debate on drug legalization this week in the United Nations. Delegates at the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs meeting this week failed to even discuss a change in the global prohibitionist drug treaties. http://salem-news.com/articles/march162012/war-drugs-un.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march162012/war-drugs-un.php Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:18:00 PDT The Oregonian newspaper, March 10, 2012, Broken Bodies, Broken Souls, which aptly exposes the monstrous medical dilemma about maybe 1,000,000 military PTSD victims. Probably about one half will be declared unemployable because of what military battle service has done to their minds. PTSD and/or TBI literally destroyed their minds! http://salem-news.com/articles/march132012/oregonian-cannabis-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march132012/oregonian-cannabis-pl.php Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:08:00 PDT Today’s cold-blooded murder of at least 16 Afghani civilians by a U.S. Army soldier is the latest in a decade-long history of atrocities carried out by the NATO occupiers. It will be remembered as the tipping point in a criminal war that grows more criminal with each passing month. http://salem-news.com/articles/march122012/answer-statement.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march122012/answer-statement.php Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:07:00 PDT This terrible psychotic act was/is predictable and the soldier involved needs to be in a psychiatric facility as soon as possible. The “system” which put him there for his fourth deployment, the first three in Iraq, is to blame. His immediate superiors, Sergeants and officers at the least should get a reprimand, but better, fines and probable discharges for dereliction of duty which this certainly is. The Army trained this soldier to be a killer with a hair trigger and behold—what has happened—he snapped. http://salem-news.com/articles/march122012/psychotic-soldier_pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march122012/psychotic-soldier_pl.php Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:00:00 PDT US military occupation forces in Afganistan under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 26 casualties in the week ending March 6, as the official casualty total for the Iraq and AfPak wars* rose to 112, 605. The total includes 79,576 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations "Iraqi Freedom" and "New Dawn"), and 33,029 since the US invaded Afghanistan in November, 2001 (Operation "Enduring Freedom") http://salem-news.com/articles/march092012/war-stats-mm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march092012/war-stats-mm.php Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:24:00 PST