Institutes of Health and City of San Diego joined WorkCompCentral to discuss the pressing matter of mental health within the first responder community. First Responders experience daily exposure to traumatic events that, over months and years, accumulate and are known to result in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, traumatic brain injury, substance abuse, chronic pain, and insomnia. Although they spend their careers helping others, this group of workers are often reluctant to ...
