"Lawmaker takes action to move medical marijuana bill" ABC27 News article
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — A bill thought to be dead in committee could be on the move at the Capitol. Senate Bill 3 to legalize medical marijuana is stalled in the House Health Committee. Chairman Matt Baker refuses to move the bill forward, saying “marijuana needs to be approved by the FDA and more research is needed.” Fellow Republican Representative Nick Miccarelli has filed a discharge resolution to try to move Senate Bill 3 out of Baker’s committee. Discharge resolutions
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The Stain of War: PTSD & Veteran Suicide Awareness Campaign
Please take a minute to check out this PTSD & Veteran Suicide awareness campaign, who we had the pleasure of meeting at Rose Tree Park at the Walk for the Wounded 2015 5K in May. #ptsd #awareness #veterans #veteran #mentalhealth #suicide
Memorial Day 2015
Please take a moment today while you are enjoying your day off and family barbeque to think of the brave men and women who have died while serving our great country. Not all battles end when veterans return stateside, please don't forget those men and women who died fighting the battle within themselves after returning home from war. Post traumatic stress and depression affects all ages and demographics, let us never forget even one veterans sacrifice. CPL DANE FREEDMAN Septe
"Support Our Troops? Dealing with PTSD Requires Commitment" article
Click here for article Suicides by active-duty troops and veterans are at levels that would have been unthinkable a generation ago. Each day, on average, a current service member dies by suicide, and each hour a veteran does the same. In response, President Obama signed the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act in February. The act aims to make information on suicide prevention more easily available to veterans; it offers financial incentives to mental health
"Depression, the Secret We Share" recommended TED talk!
Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_solomon_depression_the_secret_we_share CLICK HERE TO VIEW VIDEO This TED talk features great information about "what it feels like to be depressed" presented by Andrew Soloman. "The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment." In a talk equal parts eloquent and devastating, writer Andrew Solomon takes you to the darkest corners of his mind during the years h
Cpl Dane Freedman honored at the OC Half Marathon this weekend!!
A dear friend of Dane's sent us these pictures from a half marathon she ran in his honor in Orange County, California this weekend. This means the world to us, having her get our message out about veteran suicide and PTSD. Dane was so lucky to have such amazing friends. Thank you Shari Coble Yoder so much for remembering our Dane Shari writes: "The most emotional race i've ever done but only 3 hours of sleep after a crazy work week doesn't help. Ran alongside a marine for mos
Why Distinguishing a Moral Injury From PTSD is Important
Even on the short overnight ops, sometimes we talked about things we knew we'd carry home. On a cold night in March 2010, Jeff brought up the kid he'd shot a month earlier, when the battle for the Afghan city of Marjah was hot and there was no shortage of 15-year-olds picking up Kalashnikovs off the ground. Jeff had killed one of them with four shots from a heavy-caliber semi-auto that made a soft thud when the bolt released. The kid had a rifle, and even kids with rifles can
Combat Marine Vets Adjust to Civilian Life
For better or worse, their civilian lives were forged on the battlefields of Afghanistan, say Marine veterans. For some veterans - even one who lost a leg -- the war was a defining, motivating experience they wouldn't trade. Others, however, are struggling because of the war they fought. Scott Pelley meets both in his story about veterans of a Marine company that took especially high casualties in Afghanistan. Pelley's report on men who served in Golf Company, 2nd Battalion,
Air Force Veteran's Suicide Sheds Light on Female Soldiers with PTSD
By Adam Sechrist It’s a chilling statistic: Twenty-two United States veterans commit suicide a day, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. One recent victim: Thirty-year-old Air Force Reserve Capt. Jamie Brunette. Capt. Brunette, the youngest of five children from Milwaukee, had served two tours of duty in Afghanistan during her 11-year Air Force career. On Feb. 9, police in Tampa, Fla., found her dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Her family a
