Battling the Storm Within Blog

As the Author of the #1 Amazon National-International Best Seller War Memoir “Battling the Storm Within” about living 20 years undiagnosed with PTSD, MST and the GWI. My mission is to empower others to address their own personal traumas, be healed, restored and live again. I believe in telling the truth, living the truth and being the truth. I will share the truth for it sets you free. I have battled my storm that was within me and won, so can you! Peace and blessings Sgt. Stephanie J. Shannon

Saturday, January 14, 2017

The VA Hooked Veterans on Opioids, Then Failed Them Again

The agency overprescribed painkillers to returning soldiers, fueling addiction; now rehab facilities are overwhelmed

By Valerie Bauerlein and Arian Campo-Flores | Photographs by Travis Dove for The Wall Street Journal

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.—Robert Deatherage, a 30-year-old Army veteran who has battled addiction to pain pills and heroin since suffering severe injuries in Afghanistan, says he reached rock bottom a year ago when he holed up in an empty church and tried to kill himself. Twice.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-va-hooked-veterans-on-opioids-then-failed-them-again-1483030270