New VA Research on Substance Abuse, Military Deployments and Trauma

Week of September 06, 2010

The Department of Veterans Affairs is partnering with the National Institutes of Health to award $6 million in grants for research examining the link between substance abuse, military deployments and combat-related trauma. Several studies will look at treatment-seeking patterns and treatment strategies. Institutions receiving the grants include Brandeis University; Dartmouth College; The Medical University of South Carolina; The National Development and Research Institutes in New York City; The University of California, San Francisco; The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; The University of Missouri in Columbia; and the VA medical centers in West Haven, Conn., Philadelphia, Little Rock, Ark., and Seattle.

For more information see the official VA press release.