The data presented by Hoge and associates in this issue of theJournal1 about members of the Army and the Marine Corps returningfrom Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom inAfghanistan force us to acknowledge the psychiatric cost ofsending young men and women to war. It is possible that theseearly findings underestimate the eventual magnitude of thisclinical problem. The report is unprecedented in several respects.First, this is the first time there has been such an early assessmentof the prevalence of war-related psychiatric disorders, reportedwhile the fighting continues. Second, there are predeploymentdata, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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From the National Center for PTSD, Department of Veterans Affairs, White River Junction, Vt.; and the Departments of Psychiatry and Pharmacology and Toxicology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, N.H.
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