…a raft of physical and mental health consequences, including post-traumatic stress disorder. Sexual violence survivors, victims and society also face economic costs. Rape and attempted rape can cost survivors more…
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…members are injured, opioids can help manage their pain. Post-traumatic stress disorder also explains a big chunk of the relationship between combat exposure and painkiller abuse, Resul says. Traumatic events…
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…78% of these individuals with a spine injury and 23% with head trauma, including skull fractures, intracranial hemorrhaging and traumatic brain injury, according to the paper. The authors estimate the…
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…lockdowns and begin cauterizing the economic, mental health and other personal trauma the pandemic is inflicting on millions of people worldwide. Contact tracing involves monitoring people who’ve come into close…
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…his experience — after all, he had been traumatized. Collie, who was in his early-30s when the officer shot him, found himself paralyzed from the waist down, living in nursing…
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…if someone needs immediate medical attention for a firearm injury, that’s the kind of physical trauma likely to amplify economic consequences. One source for firearm injury data is the National…
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…regional trauma center. On average, there were 34 gunshot patients treated every three months before the policing changes, and 26 quarterly gunshot patients afterward. “The ways in which police there…
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…State of Oklahoma. When funds were short, we would take the bus. And when we would complain about the length of the drive (a trauma that is considerably less than…
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…the Journalists Covering Trauma Facebook group as a gathering place for reporters and editors and an information resource about journalists’ mental health and responsible reporting of tragedies. She graduated from…
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