The percentage decline in "prescriptions filled for opioids at a strength of 50 morphine milligram equivalents (MME) per day or more" among active duty Service members from April 2017 to July 2021, according to the Military Health System (MHS).
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder in the United States: a systematic literature review.
● Changes of evening exposure to electronic devices during the COVID-19 lockdown affect the time course of sleep disturbances.
● The natural history of insomnia: predisposing, precipitating, coping, and perpetuating factors over the early developmental course of insomnia.
Three clinical psychologists and trainers at the Center for Deployment Psychology walk into a recording studio with a mission to create a mind-blowing podcast for you, our CDP family of providers.
The number of female veteran patients who "experience public harassment by men veterans at Veterans Affairs (VA) health care facilities," according to a study published online before print in the journal Women's Health Issues -- Staff and Patient Perspectives on Bystander Intervention Training to Address Patient-Initiated Sexual Harassment in Veterans Affairs Healthcare Settings.
All of us have seen the dramatic images of the recent Taliban capture of Kabul. While the mission to defeat ISIS in Iraq will continue, many Americans are eagerly seeking explanation of the rapid-moving complex events surrounding the end of the war in Afghanistan.