More On Drug and Alcohol Addiction

The research, some of it already underway, is the first of its kind at the VA in more than 50 years.

The program, in an aging building at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Virginia, has struggled to retain employees.

The Department of Veterans Affairs, along with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, adopted 988 as...

The change on Army and Air Force bases is meant to support the Pentagon's suicide prevention initiative, which said that...

The research found that those with more severe psychiatric diagnoses, such as bipolar disorder and psychosis, are most at...

The Air Force anticipated only 50 cases annually when it announced a new pilot program last year that would allow some...

Strict alcohol bans are rare but not unheard-of in the Air Force, and they're notably only used for extreme measures.

The findings come as the military tries to grapple with alcohol and substance abuse as it puts service members at a higher...

U.S. military commanders in Alaska have ordered alcohol sales to cease after 10 p.m. on two bases .