Huffington Post (blog)
The doubling of the military suicide rate over the past decade has received a lot of attention lately -- including national headlines, multimillion-dollar research programs, and much-needed prevention efforts -- but veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan face many other serious behavioral health problems as well. Post-traumatic stress disorder, domestic violence and alcohol abuse are problems that have been widely chronicled among returning veterans of our recent wars. Often left out of the discussion, however, is the terrible toll that prescription medications -- opioid painkillers such as Oxycontin and Vicodin -- take on veterans' lives.
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