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April 14th, 2012 
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RT
April 13, 2012
Thousands of US soldiers are going into battle fueled by all sorts of prescription medications, be they amphetamines, antidepressants, sedatives or others. Largely unmonitored consumption of drugs can lead to aberrant behavior and mental disorders.
Over 110,000 American service personnel took prescribed medications in 2011 to battle through everyday military routine.
The Times recently disclosed that nearly 8 per cent of active-duty American servicemen and women take sedatives and over 6 per cent are on antidepressants, a tremendous eightfold increase since 2005, when two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were in full swing.
Routine military service, combat stress, and sometimes lack of sleep force American troops to go to work medicated. It mirrors the general situation in American society that uses prescription drugs on a daily basis at levels unseen before.
In the Army, though, those who opt to modulate their lives with drugs are facing challenges of a non-civil nature that supposes an absolutely different level of responsibility. These men and women are well-armed, after all.
As a rule, troops are sent to deployment with 180-day medication supply. But soldiers can always trade favorite pills with their friends. The habit of ending a hard day with a handful of various tablets is apparently nothing extraordinary.
- A d v e r t i s e m e n t
“We have never medicated our troops to the extent we are doing now…. And I don’t believe the current increase in suicides and homicides in the military is a coincidence,” said Bart Billings, a former military psychologist who hosts an annual conference on combat stress, informed The Los Angeles Times.
Painkillers of narcotic nature pose a threat of addiction to those injured who have to take them, too.
One could only guess whether the suicide rate surge in the US Army in the recent decade has any connections with army psychologists prescribing pills to personnel left, right and center. An appalling 80 per cent increase in suicides among US service personnel has been registered between 2004 and 2008.
On the other hand, when every 10th US serviceman deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, there must be a calculated risk in prescribing these medications to keep soldiers in service.
But the main problem among deployed troops remains mental fatigue of those who have been deployed several times in a row. As many as 80 per cent of on-duty personnel have gone through three or more deployments. Worn-out personnel have problems with sleep and accurate assessment of ongoing events.
The recent notorious case of Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, accused of murdering 17 civilians in a bloody rampage in Afghanistan, again raised the question of drug-related incidents in the US military.
After it was announced the defendant does not remember what he did, his attorneys requested a list of the medication the soldier was taking during his deployment in Afghanistan.
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“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.” ~ Will Durant
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Everyone is going to have PTSD now over these disgusting illegal wars, it is going to be so commonplace that it seems to me that PTSD is going to be widespread like obesity in many ways, leading to the govt and society with a PTSD over kill giving people like me who have had a PTSD disability for over almost 20 years an even better handicap where it is not going to be taken as serious as it was before.
I say these soldiers DESERVE to suffer for joining to fight these disgusting wars and some of them DONT DESERVE a diagnosis of PTSD, period. Suffering from shell shock from combat? Well thats too bad, you got what you deserve for joining to fight these disgusting illegal wars. I literally have been a supporter of veterans rights since I was a kid, vets were my heroes, BUT NOT THESE VETS, by a long shot, I think they are contemptible bullies, murderers and enemies of this great republic.
Like they use to say, “what if they threw a war and no one came?” Well these idiots are joining up to fight and kill these illegal wars of aggression and NOW they want to cry about PTSD, I say too bad.
If the great men and women of WWII and WWI didnt cry about PTSD and need to take pills that are more screwed up for your brain than alcohol. The soldiers of today, these pill poppers cant handle it like the great men of WWII, WWI and even Korea. Taking pills for PTSD is a big cop out, I have PTSD BUT I REFUSED to take their pills and never did, ever. I dont have PTSD from combat thank god, but I have it nonetheless but never, ever did I take pills for it. Counseling and spirituality and time are the only things that REALLY help PTSD in the long run
The New World Order, only a few thousand people at the most, are doing everything they can to destroy the Amerikan military and kill as many first responders as possible (Remember 9/11.). This is only part of the master plan.
That so many soldiers are willfully taking these bogus medications shows that the mentality of the average soldier, not very high when I was a soldier in the 1980s anyway, has gone to sub-human lows.
I totally agree the soldiers of today are so dumb, nothing but video game killing racists, most of them anyway in a big way who bought into the lies of the govt and to me are a huge SHAME on this great republic. I supported the VFW in an active way for MANY years but not these guys, hell no.
We were meant to live for so much more, have we lost ourselves?
Too many morons is exactly the problem, too many indoctrinated little boys who want to KILL KILL KILL and play soldier but dont want to take the consequences, cowards take pills for this crap.
Prescribed Meds make a dangerous soldier completely out of control, mostly under the Devil’s control!
Meds in Vietnam for soldiers was taken without prescription… Drugs mostly like heroin and cocaine
etc:
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It makes me sick that NO ONE learned the lessons of Vietnam or what happened to those vets when they got back. Basically everyone that joins up in order to fight is an uninformed moron. I wanted to join the army for many years, but I have intelligence, I have been awake to the NWO and the lies of the wars since Vietnam when I was a little kid. I wanted to join but refused on principal and I literally am an amazing soldier and would of went far but I am not fighting for these criminals.
NEVER JOIN THE MILITARY NOW, IT IS NO LONGER THE ARMY OF OUR FATHERS AND GRANDFATHERS.
110k junkies with automatic weapons.its gonna be a wild ride when they stop handing out the pills
yeah, absolutely. good point.
i’ve had to wean myself off a whole heap of psychotropics prescribed by a qwack doctor.
haven’t been the same since. sometimes get really riled up now, never used to before.
when these chemically lobotomized soldiers go home and find their country has been shredded, find that they are classed as terrorists the second they are discharged, the fecal matter will hit the rotary breeze machine at a great rate of knots.
it’ll be messy.
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