Industry Bulletins | November 9, 2021
Wounded Warrior Project Expands Mental Health Treatment To Include Drug Addiction
Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) announced it is expanding mental treatment and research for veterans through its Warrior Care Network®, the innovative health care network created in 2015. Now wounded veterans can receive treatment for drug addiction simultaneously with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at the network's academic medical center partners: Emory Healthcare Veterans Program; Road Home Program at Rush University Medical Center; UCLA Health's Operation Mend; and Home Base, a Boston Red Sox and Massachusetts General Hospital Program.
According to Department of Veterans Affairs, more than 1 in 4 veterans with PTSD also have drug addiction. A 2020 . . .