New Drug Treatment Court Helps Rehabilitate Veterans
New drug treatment court helps rehabilitate veterans
Filed under: drug abuse help for veterans
Held on Wednesday mornings before Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Glenn Yamahiro, Veterans Treatment Court opened three weeks ago. Funding to start the Veterans Treatment Initiative came from a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services …
Read more on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Program targets troubled veterans at magisterial level
Filed under: drug abuse help for veterans
The state cites drug and alcohol abuse, anger management and post-traumatic stress disorder as issues that could trigger criminal behavior. The hope is that by intervening in cases handled by the lower courts, veterans in trouble with the law won't …
Read more on News Item
VA undercounted Afghanistan and Iraq war veteran PTSD cases
Filed under: drug abuse help for veterans
The overall, revised health care report shows 444,451 or 53.3 percent of the total sought mental health care, which includes treatment for PTSD, depression, psychoses, alcohol and drug abuse, over the past 10 years. This ranks mental health disorders …
Read more on Nextgov
Leave no veteran behind
Filed under: drug abuse help for veterans
In response, veterans court programs have begun springing up to help veterans with mental health and substance abuse issues and to connect them with resources. The first veteran's court opened in Buffalo, N.Y., in 2008, according to the National Center …
Read more on Norman Transcript