End Your Covert Mission: A Veteran's Guide to Fighting Pain and Addiction

Specialists give veterans the tools to conquer chronic pain and substance use in this to-the-point guide.

For many veterans and service members, life after military service includes what feels like an ongoing mission to disguise or ignore pain. Too often this mission is both secret and lonely—a battle undertaken without the support or even the knowledge of those around them.

Some strategies to manage physical, social, and psychological pain are only short-term fixes. Self-medicating, subs...