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The data presented by Hoge and associates in this issue of the Journal¹ about members of the Army and the Marine Corps returning from Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan force us to acknowledge the psychiatric cost of sending young men and women to war. It is possible that these early findings underestimate the eventual magnitude of this clinical problem. The report is unprecedented in several respects. First, this is the first time there has been such an early assessment of the prevalence of war-related psychiatric disorders, reported while the fighting continues. Second, there are predeployment data, . . . [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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