The Association of Lifetime and Deployment-Acquired Traumatic Brain Injury With Postdeployment Binge and Heavy

Rachel Sayko Adams1, Laura Campbell-Sills, Murray B Stein

  • 1Institute for Behavioral Health, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts (Drs Adams and Larson); VHA Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center, Aurora, Colorado (Dr Adams); Departments of Psychiatry (Drs Campbell-Sills and Stein) and Family Medicine and Public Health (Drs Stein and Jain and Ms Sun), University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California; VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, California (Dr Stein); Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Kessler); Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland (Dr Ursano); and Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (Dr Corrigan).

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