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The percentage of military casualties in "Non-Overseas Contingency Operations" (Non-OCO) 2006 that were related to accidents involving substance abuse, according to a new brief from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) -- Recent Trends in Active-Duty Military Deaths.
Welcome to this week’s edition of CDP News! We like to use this space to review recent happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, while also looking ahead to upcoming events. Next week will be a short week, due to the 4th of July holiday, but we’ve still got plenty to talk about.
The weekly research update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Clinician's Trauma Update Online (CTU-Online)
● PTSD Monthly Update -- Help Someone You Love on PTSD Awareness Day
● A systematic review and meta-analysis of cognitive and behavioral interventions to improve sleep health in adults without sleep disorders.
June is PTSD Awareness Month. So I decided to dip into the research to get a sense of how “aware” people are about PTSD. One thing I discovered: awareness is likely insufficient for the changes needed to adequately address the problem that many with PTSD do not recognize they have a behavioral health condition that requires treatment to avoid short- and long-term problems. Ideally, everyone should be able to recognize someone who is traumatized and, as with suicide, talk with them in an empathic manner to encourage them to get help.
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The proportion of "US military casualties among service members evacuated from Iraq and Afghanistan" caused by "non-battle injuries," according to a recent article in the journal JAMA Surgery -- A 12-Year Analysis of Nonbattle Injury Among US Service Members Deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. The article also noted that non-battle injuries were the cause of 11.5% of all deaths among this cohort.