Michael said:
As a matter of fact the VA was shocked about the paucity of drug
addicted Vietnam vets. Although drugs were readily available in Nam and
lots of Vets did drugs ,when they came home they were in fine shape.
Michael- This is commonly believed but not true. They were surprized
about the "reversal" of heroin/opiate addiction and that fit into a few
people's ideas about situational tolerances. I'm not aware of any
differentiation between a) bad estimates of addiction over there, b) bad
estimates of how they'd cope when they returned (i.e., what drugs they'd
switch to), c) a complete non-understanding of PTSD and how it would
"play out" when they returned home. It wasn't that they were or were not
addicted but that the VA was completely incapable of dealing with the
problems the vets had. Seems like we haven't learned very much given
what is apparently going on at Reed.
Tim
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Timothy O. Shearon, PhD
Albertson College of Idaho
2112 Cleveland Blvd
Caldwell, ID 83605 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
teaching: intro, neuropsychology, bio psych, methods, history and
system, psychopharm
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