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Fighting another war: How many military personnel and veterans will have PTSD in 2025?

  • Written by Mohammad S. Jalali, Research Faculty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
imageWe need better estimates of PTSD to find the best policies to treat it. Marines via Flickr

Post-traumatic stress disorder is a serious public health challenge. It is estimated that about eight million people in the U.S. (2.5 percent of the total population) suffer from it. This rate jumps to about 11 to 20 percent among Iraq and Afghanistan...

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