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VetNet Staff Report
The new Poll question on the Veterans Network voting poll is:
"Are you generally satisfied with the performance and improved navigation features of the new VA website that was launched on November 11, 2009?"
The link icon for the Poll can be found on the Veterans Network Main Channel Guide, lower right.
All Poll results are forwarded to the U.S. House Committee on Veterans Affairs, attention: Chairman Bob Filner
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The Naval Health Research Center released a study this month that showed that troops receiving morphine shortly after being wounded were 50% less likely to develop post traumatic stress disorder than soldiers who did not receive the drug.
While the cause for this effect is still
unknown, researchers believe it is either connected to pain relief or the morphine affecting the part of the brain that stores traumatic memories.
Morphine has been used for pain relief
from battle wounds as far back as the Civil War.
Since World War II, medics and hospital corpsmen have carried small injectors filled with the drug.
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It is the primary painkiller used for combat injuries, but it is still unknown how
frequently it is being used in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Washington Post reported that, "A recent survey of 114 burn patients treated at the Army Institute of Surgical Research in Texas found that 30 percent had received pre-hospital injections, according to Laura L. McGhee, a researcher there."
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