The Veteran withdrew his appeals for service connection for drug and alcohol abuse, including as secondary to depression, and evaluation of pseudofolliculitis barbae.
The deciding factor: The Veteran requested the withdrawal of all claims now pending in December 2008.
- Claimed conditions
- drug and alcohol abuse
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 4, 2009
- Citation
- 0907791
What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection and increased ratings, finding that the evidence did not support a compensable disability rating or service connection for any of the claimed conditions.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include bipolar disorder. The decision also remanded the issues of service connection for drug and alcohol abuse secondary to a psychiatric disability and total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disability (TDIU).
- Denied
The veteran's claims for service connection for post-traumatic stress disorder, drug and alcohol abuse, hearing loss, tinnitus, diabetes mellitus (including as due to Agent Orange exposure), glaucoma, and a sinus disability were denied.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for Graves' disease, a stomach condition, and drug and alcohol abuse as not being related to his military service or secondary to his PTSD. The TDIU claim was also denied.
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