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..."

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

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