American fighting men and women would benefit from comprehensive approaches for recognizing and treating posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) once they return from active war zones, PTSD experts told panelists at the Institute of Medicine in April in Washington, D.C.
The meeting was part of an ongoing assessment of treatments for PTSD requested by the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
“There should be no wrong door to which veterans or their families can come for help,” said Harold Kudler, M.D., associate director of the VA's Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center in Durham, N.C., and an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center.
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