The Board has granted service connection for PTSD and assigned a rating of 30 percent, effective from January 1 to January 22, 1996. The veteran's Osgood-Schlatter's disease of the right knee is rated at 10 percent. Service connection for drug abuse as secondary to PTSD has been denied.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the veteran's drug abuse was not related to his service-connected disabilities, including PTSD and Osgood-Schlatter's disease of the right knee.
- Claimed conditions
- drug abuse, Osgood-Schlatter's disease of the right knee, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- September 3, 2002
- Citation
- 0211138
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