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Drug treatment no panacea for post-traumatic stress disorder.
Byline: J. Patrick Coolican
SEATTLE _ Don Hall looks warily at windows and needs to be near a door _ an escape route. Lee Jones avoids bridges. Larry Scott can't get an image out of his mind: a dead Viet Cong soldier in a uniform that's too big.
The experimental treatment using prazosin may be helping patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) get a decent night's rest, but that still leaves a range of symptoms to deal with during the day: anxiety, depression, isolation.
Jones has found himself behind a Metro bus, when the smell of diesel fumes suddenly takes him back to the Ia Drang Valley, sweating, confused, anxious.
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