End Your Covert Mission: Fighting the Battle Against Addiction and Pain

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

For many veterans, 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—and 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, substance use, and bottling u...