msnbc: "U.S. military: Heavily armed and medicated"

Seashore · 05-19-2009, 09:02 PM

Prescription pill dependency among American troops is on the rise

By Melody Petersen
updated 8:30 a.m. ET, Tues., May 19, 2009

"...In deploying an all-volunteer army to fight two ongoing wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon has increasingly relied on prescription drugs to keep its warriors on the front lines. In recent years, the number of military prescriptions for antidepressants, sleeping pills, and painkillers has risen as soldiers come home with battered bodies and troubled minds. And many of those service members are then sent back to war theaters in distant lands with bottles of medication to fortify them..."

Link to the full article:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30748260

Tango · 05-19-2009, 09:48 PM

I know Its sooo, sooo Sad..... Programmed; drugged; murdered....

And, not a Freak'n citizen stands up for those families...

Congress voted themselves a 93,000.00 increase... No reaction from
citizens... Nazi are Laughing at all of you.... They are killing your
families... ---Right in front of your eyes---..... Next, they are
coming to drug... and... kill... You... Then your babies...

What, I ask you, are these people going to be like when they get back to
the World... The Matrix... The Rat race... Do You see what is being done...?
They are padding... Pockets....

Tango

05-19-2009, 09:02 PM	#1
Seashore Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 3,564	msnbc: "U.S. military: Heavily armed and medicated" Prescription pill dependency among American troops is on the rise By Melody Petersen updated 8:30 a.m. ET, Tues., May 19, 2009 "...In deploying an all-volunteer army to fight two ongoing wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon has increasingly relied on prescription drugs to keep its warriors on the front lines. In recent years, the number of military prescriptions for antidepressants, sleeping pills, and painkillers has risen as soldiers come home with battered bodies and troubled minds. And many of those service members are then sent back to war theaters in distant lands with bottles of medication to fortify them..." Link to the full article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30748260

05-19-2009, 09:48 PM	#2
Tango Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: eating dessert in the desert of Arizona Posts: 1,554	Re: msnbc: "U.S. military: Heavily armed and medicated" I know Its sooo, sooo Sad..... Programmed; drugged; murdered.... And, not a Freak'n citizen stands up for those families... Congress voted themselves a 93,000.00 increase... No reaction from citizens... Nazi are Laughing at all of you.... They are killing your families... ---Right in front of your eyes---..... Next, they are coming to drug... and... kill... You... Then your babies... What, I ask you, are these people going to be like when they get back to the World... The Matrix... The Rat race... Do You see what is being done...? They are padding... Pockets.... Tango