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A comprehensive history of drugs and drug enforcement in American history, including some insight into heroin use during the Vietnam war, and the Nixon Administration's reaction to that abuse.
Benda, Brent B. "Predictors of Rehospitalization of Military Veterans Who Abuse Substances." Social Work Research 25.4 (2001): 199+.
A wide-ranging study of 600 homeless Vietnam era veterans and their continuing addictions. Includes facts, figures, and the results of the study, and some ideas about why post-traumatic stress syndrome can lead to debilitating addictions.
Marlowe, David H. Psychological and Psychosocial Consequences of Combat and Deployment: With Special Emphasis on the Gulf War. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 2001.
Helpful resource studying the effects of war on just about every major American war veteran. Contains a large and helpful section on the Vietnam War and the First Gulf War, and why veterans react the way they do to the trauma of war.
McNally, Richard J. "Progress and Controversy in the Study of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder." Annual Review of Psychology (2003): 229+.
A look at some of the studies conducted...
"Casualties of the Gulf War Some Deny Gulf War Syndrome Exists. Now Researchers Say They've Found Evidence it Does, and a Suburban Hospital Is Trying a New Way to Treat it." Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) 10 Jan. 2000: 1.
A newspaper article discussing reactions to the Gulf War Syndrome reported after the First Gulf War, and how some people do not believe the syndrome even exists.
Reville, John. "Top Military Medic Says Gulf War Syndrome Is Shellshock." The Birmingham Post (England): 1.
Another newspaper article discussing reactions to the Gulf War Syndrome, this time from Great Britain, which indicates that reaction to post-traumatic stress disorder is questioned in many parts of the world.
Benda, Brent B. "Predictors of Rehospitalization of Military Veterans Who Abuse Substances." Social Work Research 25.4 (2001): 199+.
Marlowe, David H. Psychological and Psychosocial Consequences of Combat and Deployment: With Special Emphasis on the Gulf War. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 2001.
Rackl, Lorilyn. "Casualties of the Gulf War Some Deny Gulf War Syndrome Exists. Now Researchers Say They've Found Evidence it Does, and a Suburban Hospital Is Trying a New Way to Treat it." Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) 10 Jan. 2000: 1.
American Involvement in Vietnam There were a number of reasons for America's involvement in the Vietnam War, and none of them are easy or give the entire picture of the situation. The War was so contentious and so costly to young American's fighting overseas that it continues to cause contention and argument even today. The remnants of Vietnam, the Vietnam Vets homeless and aged, are a constant reminder that sometimes intervention
Much of the country to this day suffers, and many look back and consider the country at best a "wasteland" destroyed and dismantled for unrecognizable causes (Kirkwood-Tucker & Benton, 2002). World response was so dramatic to the war in Vietnam and the presence of allied forces that in 1973 the Treaty of Paris "called for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops" and allied forces in S. Vietnam (Kirkwood-Tucker & Benton,
" You figure, Williams explained to the author, you don't like what's happening at home in Chicago, and now in the U.S. Marines "...you finally get a chance to get away." Those were Williams' reasons for joining the military and participating in the Vietnam War as an African-American youth. Indeed Williams saw the military as not just an escape, but as "a form of incarceration" - but the war might
American Experience With War Which historian - David M. Kennedy, or John Shy - best represents the American experience with war? While reading Kennedy's - and Shy's - essay discussions, it's necessary to put their writings in the context of time. Kennedy penned his essay in 1975, and Shy wrote his in 1971. In terms of world events subsequent to both essays - in particular the advent of terrorism on a colossal
American Response to Vietnamese War Twenty five years and more have passed since the United States officially withdrew its forces and involvement in Vietnam. Not since the civil war had the country been so divided and separated in the political and social opinions. Almost every family in America was in some way affected, losing husbands, sons, friends and daughters. More than 100,000 American soldiers were killed and those who made it
Vietnam Antiwar Lit Review Vietnam Anti-War Literature Review The Vietnam War marked a lot of "firsts" in relation to the course of American history. It is the first war that the United States lost. It is one of the first major military actions where actual war was not declared. It is also the first war that was brought to a halt by a public uproar and political fallout. The people were a