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If You’re Not Asking About ED, Veterans Are Missing Benefits

A practical resource hub for VSOs to identify ED, support Veteran health, and help secure potential SMC-K eligibility.

ED Is More Common—and More Overlooked—Than Most Veterans Realize

Veterans experience higher rates of ED due to:

  • PTSD and mental health conditions
  • Hypertension and cardiovascular disease
  • Diabetes and obesity
  • Chronic pain and sleep disruption
  • Medication side effects
VETERANS LIVING WITH ED
10 M+

Higher prevalence than the general male population — across every era of service.

Men With ED
47 M+

Report some form of sexual dysfunction.

RECEIVE NO TREATMENT
90 %

Of men with ED never seek formal care. The barrier is conversation — not medicine.

SMC-K BENEFIT THEY'RE OWED
$139 .87

Per month. Stacks with existing comp. A 0% rating still qualifies. Most veterans don't know.

CHOOSE A PACK SIZE

How much can your office use?

Most offices start with the 4-Pack and re-order when they need to. Re-orders use the same verified email, no second verification needed.

Recommended for first-time partners: the Eddie 4-Pack.

ED Is More Than a Sexual Health Issue

A supportive hand resting on a veteran's knee

A veteran sits across from you. He came in for something else — sleep, the back, a new claim he heard about from a buddy. He won't bring up the rest. Not in the first meeting, not without a reason.

ED is the most common condition he's not telling you about. It's also the one most likely to be a secondary service connection he's owed — sitting downstream of the PTSD, the diabetes, the meds, the prostate surgery, the blast injury. When you don't ask, the claim isn't filed, the SMC-K isn't paid, and the marriage doesn't get the help it deserves either.

So we made a booklet that does the awkward part for you. He doesn't have to say the words. He picks it up off the table, takes it home, reads it in the truck, hands it to his wife. Three weeks later he comes back ready to talk.

That's what this is. A quiet tool, sitting on the table. It costs you nothing.

Six things in every box, plus the things you didn't know to ask for.

No purchase orders, no contracts, no quarterly reports back to us. Reorder anytime, scale up or down without explanation. Cancel by ignoring us.

The booklet itself, in the quantity you need

32 pages, 8th-grade reading level, reviewed quarterly by VA clinicians and veteran peer counselors. Cartons of 25, 50, or 100.

Cartons · 25 / 50 / 100 Reorder anytime

A 16-page guide for handing it out well

When to bring it up. How to bring it up. What to do if a veteran has follow-up questions you're not equipped to answer. Bound, in every box.

16 pages · bound PDF available

Eight scenarios, word-for-word if you want

From “a vet is asking about prostate-meds side effects” to “a spouse called and is worried.” Written by working VSOs and clinicians.

8 scenarios Peer-written

For your clinicians: ICD-10, treatment, citations

Coding reference, first-line and second-line treatment overviews, peer-reviewed citations for everything in the booklet.

PDF · 24 pages Updated quarterly

A real person, on a regular hour

Drop in any Thursday at 4 PM PT to ask about distribution, edge-cases, or how other offices are using the booklet.

Thursdays · 4 PM PT Drop-in

A monthly digest, low volume, no spam

Field notes from other offices, clinical updates to the appendix, and the occasional research summary worth your time.

1,800 providers Monthly · opt-in

The booklet your veterans needed before they walked in.

Eddie ships free, plain-language ED booklets to VA clinics, county VSOs, and peer counselors. Cartons of 25, 50, or 100 — plus the facilitator guide and conversation scripts. Yours, indefinitely.

REVIEWED & VERIFIED

12 clinicians, 8 veterans

On every printing. Each chapter cites the VA, NIH, and peer-reviewed clinical sources. Editorial board listed on the back of the booklet — and on the website for any partner who wants to check.

Order for your office — free, no purchase order

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Read the facilitator guide

What this isn't.

We're not asking you to do anything different — quietly, on paper, with no digital trail. Veterans aren't searching for ED help; they're discovering it across the table from someone they already trust. A handout in their pocket, read at home, on their schedule.

We don't track who reads what. We don't follow up by email. We won't ask you for client lists or distribution reports. The booklet is a one-shot tool you hand out. What happens next is between them and their clinician.

Reviewed quarterly by twelve VA clinicians and eight veteran peer counselors. Funded by donor support and the VA Office of Health Equity. The booklet stays free, by charter, regardless of how it's distributed. The fewer strings, the better it works.

Honest questions, honest answers.

The eight questions officers ask most when they're considering a first order or training a colleague. Anything missing — write to us.

Is there really no cost?

Correct — including freight and materials. The program is donor-funded with grant support from the VA Office of Health Equity. We publish funding sources on the website. There is no upsell, no subscription, no contact-list rental, no follow-up sales email.

What's actually in the sample pack?

Five booklets, the 16-page facilitator guide, the conversation scripts, and the clinical appendix. Plain envelope, plain shipping. Use them however you'd like — most offices keep one on the desk and put the rest in the waiting room.

Who reviewed it?

Twelve VA clinicians and eight veteran peer counselors, on every printing. The editorial board is listed on the back of the booklet and on the website. Each chapter cites the VA, NIH, and peer-reviewed clinical sources.

Can I share it with non-veterans?

Yes. Spouses, partners, adult children, providers — the booklet is for anyone who'd benefit. Many of the strongest outcomes we see come from a spouse picking it up first and starting the conversation.

Will you track what we do with it?

No. We don't track distribution, we don't follow up with veterans, we don't send post-distribution surveys. We don't know if you opened the box. That's the design.

What's the reorder cadence?

Whatever you need. Some offices reorder monthly, some quarterly, some once and never again. No annual cap, no minimum, no contract. The form remembers your shipping details after the first order.

Can I co-brand or customize it?

Not by default — the booklet is unbranded so it works across programs and doesn't read as advertising. For runs of 500+, we can add a co-branded back-cover sticker with your office name. Email us if that's helpful.

How do I train a new officer to use it?

The facilitator guide includes a 30-minute self-paced module with the eight conversation scripts. We also host monthly office hours Thursdays at 4 PM PT for live questions, edge-cases, and discussion among officers using the booklet.

The next veteran who walks in
has been carrying this.

You don't have to bring it up. The booklet does. We'll
send a free sample pack to your office this week — five
copies, the facilitator guide, the scripts. Open it,
look at it, decide for yourself.
Send me a sample