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VA Busted Again Over Poor Diagnosis and Mistreatment of PTSD Vets

There are good people working for the VA, but its leadership keeps trying to cut wounded veterans off at the knees.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The true spirit of the VA reared its ugly head last week when an email in a few simple words, nearly sized up what many believe is their general policy in its treatment of combat veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder..

It all came to a head over a simple email containing a VA psychologist’s direction to staff at a Texas veterans facility to withhold diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder from soldiers.

PTSD: One Million Plus American Military Victims

Phillip Leveque has spent his life as a Combat Infantryman, Physician, Toxicologist and Pharmacologist. He is an expert in medical marijuana treatment.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - It is comforting for me as a combat infantryman and physician for PTSD victims to see an article in the Oregonian newspaper on PTSD citing disgrace over the gross mistreatment of not only hundreds of thousands of battle veterans, but the mistreatment of all PTSD veterans going back even to the Civil War.

The figures usually given by the newspapers is 300 thousand PTSD veterans. What is not mentioned is their families. They have PTSD also. One of the symptoms or signs of PTSD is hypervigilance, in other words veterans are as "jumpy as a cat".

Questionnaire for Security Clearances Revised

The federal government implements a change that will bring relief to combat veterans who seek help.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Until now, American servicemembers risked their military careers if they sought help in treating the psychological trauma brought about by combat, or even disclosed it. After repeated tours in the war theater, it seems unrealistic to expect that people would not suffer at least some degree of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, it just means they are human.

A new rule implemented by the federal government relaxes that problem, at least when it comes to getting security clearances, and Uncle Sam definitely worked on behalf of our beleaguered combat veterans who need the support of each and every American citizen and institution.

The VA Wants to Kill Combat Veterans

It's time for a WAR ON DRUGS against the U.S. government and the Veteran's Administration.

(SALEM, Ore.) - One after another, we continue to receive horror stories about the VA's medical practices. They want to hook wounded combat veterans on hard pharmaceutical drugs that we have to pay for with our tax dollars, while denying them the one, solitary thing that can bring them relief: medical marijuana.

One vet who wrote just today, says after Iraq he found that medical marijuana helps him stay off hard addictive drugs. He still opted to enter the VA's PTSD program, and within weeks was off pot and addicted to three hardcore drugs that the pharmaceutical companies love to sell our government VA.

VA Inadvertently Confirms that a Thousand Vets a Month are Attempting Suicide

An email intercepted by CBS News shows that the VA's head of Mental Health has knowingly lied to the public, repeatedly.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The number of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans attempting to commit suicide today in the United States is about 1,000 a month, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs' head of Mental Health, Dr. Ira Katz.

The news is numbing, and the VA did not mean to let it out. It seems the spirit of CBS News is alive and well, as the network's news department has cracked wide open the VA's fictitious position; that less than 800 vets were taking their own lives every year.

How America Really Treats Combat Vets: A Marine`s Story Part 3 (VIDEO)

A Marine Corps Iraq combat vet is placed in a jail "Unfit for insurgent prisoners" for growing marijuana plants that help him deal with PTSD.

(SALEM, Ore.) - This is part 3 in a special series on Marine Corps Sergeant Phil Northcutt, whose life went from Marine combat hero in Iraq, to homeless felon in California, all because he used the only thing that helped him deal with Post traumatic Stress Disorder: legal medical marijuana.

Southern California law authorities seem to have it in for the Marines, and there are a great many of us who have suffered the wrath for our association with the eagle, globe and anchor in both LA and Orange Counties, and it makes little sense, but is still the case.

How America Really Treats Combat Vets: A Marine`s Story Part 2 (SLIDESHOW)

A Marine combat vet who served in Iraq uses medical marijuana to deal with war-related PTSD, and is tossed into the grinder by the California court system.

(SALEM, Ore.) - In part one of this special three-part series report, we learned that Marine Corps Sergeant Phillip Northcutt of Long Beach, California, began his enlistment in the Marines in 1998 as the platoon "Honorman".

When Northcutt returned home from Iraq, his one-year non-extendable tour was extended over his battlefield injuries. The combat vet had PTSD and could barely walk. He began growing using medical marijuana to deal with combat-related PTSD, but fell victim to a bogus set of laws that punish combat vets for seeking relief. Part 2 explains more of the story.

How America Really Treats Combat Vets: A Marine`s Story Part 1

A Marine who served in Iraq uses medical marijuana to deal with combat PTSD, and a California jail subjects him to far worse treatment than insurgent prisoners ever received on his watch.

(SALEM, Ore.) - This is the story of the repeated tragedy for the American combat vet, particularly Marines, who often feel as supported in our society as a member of the Manson Family.

Documentary on Oregon Guard Soldiers in Iraq Will Have Free Showings Statewide

When violence is depicted, it is startling and real. The soldiers, at times funny, sometimes bitter, sometimes very innocent share their story of combat in Iraq.

(SALEM, Ore.) - "This is War", is an 84-minute documentary following nine soldiers serving in Iraq and will be featured at a free showing open to the public at locations throughout Oregon.

Family, friends, veterans and all citizens of Oregon are encouraged to attend and show their support of the soldiers from Oregon who have proven themselves to be a reliable, ready and relevant part of the total force of our country and our state.

Cardiac Arrhythmias and Marijuana

No arrhythmias with 6,000 patients.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Anybody who knows anything about marijuana knows that it causes blood vessel dilation followed by a drop in blood pressure and reflex tachycardia. This is not what I’m writing about.

I have seen and performed physical exams on at least 4,000 marijuana patients. I have also reviewed the physical exams performed by competent Nurse practitioners and Physicians Assistants. In no case did we ever find a cardiac arrhythmia such Auricular flutter or fibrillation and no ventricular arrhythmias except for slight tachycardia mentioned above.