Eric Newhouse
In Faces of Combat, PTSD & TBI: One Journalist’s Crusade to Improve Treatment for Our Veterans Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eric Newhouse issues a call to help America’s returning warriors. His concern is that one-third to one-half of the 1.6 million men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan can be expected to return home with one or all three emotional disorders – post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), or major depression. But the Veterans Administration is already overloaded in treating soldiers from previous conflicts, primarily Vietnam vets who never received the help they needed and deserved.
Eric Newhouse has been a reporter, correspondent and bureau chief for The Associated Press, and the projects editor for the Great Falls, Montana, Tribune. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for a 12-part series of stories on alcoholism.
For more information about the ongoing crusade to get appropriate treatment for combat veterans see the websiteFacesOfCombat.US.
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