Richard- Are you on Sabbatical??!? (Parolled?) Tell me stories. I'm scheduled for next year. Due to factors beyond my control (team player, the wife says I'm good at doing what's good for the department but not for me, hmmmm) it has been, gulp, 11 years! Hanging in there, Tim
_______________________________ Timothy O. Shearon, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Psychology Albertson College of Idaho Caldwell, ID 83605 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; history and systems -----Original Message----- From: Richard Pisacreta, Ph.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 3/6/2007 5:59 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] RE: No one really knows the cost of war Many of the returning Vietnam vets only went to the VA once. They were treated so badly, they never went back. So, of course the VA didn't include them in any negative stats. Richard Pisacreta, Ph.D. parolled Psychology professor Feris State University Dept. of Social Sciences >From: "Shearon, Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" ><[email protected]> >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" ><[email protected]> >Subject: [tips] RE: No one really knows the cost of war >Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 10:26:02 -0700 > >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 >_____________________________________________ >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 > > > >--- >To make changes to your subscription go to: >http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang= >english > > >--- >To make changes to your subscription go to: >http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english > _________________________________________________________________ The average US Credit Score is 675. The cost to see yours: $0 by Experian. http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=660600&bcd=EMAILFOOTERAVERAGE --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
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