The Drugged Wars~Soldiers Drugged to Keep Fighting Wars
Submitted by Liberty_Belle on Thu, 03/25/2010 - 15:21When The Washington Post revealed in 2007 the disgusting conditions endured by injured soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital, the right wing blogosphere raced to blame the messenger and throw water on the outrage. Then, silence. There have been similar right wing blackouts on veteran/soldier suicides, health impacts from the burn pits overseas, and the overwhelming 1.1 million backlogged veterans’ claims at the VA, a system which one senior official recently admitted, “cannot be fixed.”
It’s amazing how a political faction, so steeped in sanctimony about “honoring our troops,” can turn heel and sprint away at the first sight of war’s true devastation. Let me amend that — at the first of sight of anything politically inconvenient to their aggressive interventionist worldview. What indeed are they afraid of? That their distortions, manipulations and embellishments about the glories of war will be revealed so achingly in the soldier hanging by a noose in his parents’ modest middle American home?
If so, there is bound to be another blackout on this most recent report. Good thing it’s coming from the Military Times, so as to at least ensure that the story itself will be circulated well within the military and beyond on both sides of the spectrum. And it will be that much harder for the right wing talkers to trash on its face.
Turns out the government has spent upwards of $1 billion on “common pain and psychiatric medications” for soldiers from 2001 to 2009. The military is drugging up soldiers more than ever – 76 percent more than at the start of the two-front war — and in doing so, keep them in the ranks, in the field, behind .50-caliber machine guns and engaging in patrols, despite physical and emotional pain, depression and post traumatic stress likely held-over from previous tours in-country.
One wonders how far the military will go to keep warm bodies in the warzone.
The Military Times report, published a week ago, tries to answer the question and what it finds is nothing less than staggering :
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Well, I guess the elite are happy
they are reducing the population. I hope these soldiers catch on to how they are being used.
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(related report)
Sharp Rise in U. S. Military Psychiatric Drug Use and Suicides
by Bruce Levine
One in six service members is now taking at least one psychiatric drug, according to the Navy Times, with many soldiers taking “drug cocktail” combinations. Soldiers and military healthcare providers told the Military Times that psychiatric drugs are “being prescribed, consumed, shared and traded in combat zones.”
The Navy Times reporters Andrew Tilghman and Brendan McGarry also noted that there has been a large increase in military suicides. From 2001 to 2009, the Army’s official suicide rate increased from 9 per 100,000 soldiers to 23 per 100,000. During that same period, the Marine Corps suicide rate increased from 16.7 per 100,000 soldiers to 24 per 100,000.
Investigators found that antipsychotic and antiepileptic drugs, approved for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, are now commonly used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms such as nightmares, nervousness, and anger outbursts. The use of antipsychotic drugs for non-psychotic conditions such as PTSD is called “off-label” prescribing. The general public is also subject to off-label prescribing, which is considered legal.
In February 2010, Brig. Gen. Loree Sutton, the Army’s highest-ranking psychiatrist, reported to Congress that 17 percent of the active-duty force and as much as 6 percent of deployed troops are on antidepressants.
Just how insane is it to prescribe psychiatric drugs to deployed troops?
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This whole things just makes
This whole things just makes me sick to my stomach and the cultural brainwashing has young men seeking to volunteer for this madness and old men encouraging them. The treatment of our military and veterans is despicable. The worse part is I feel so helpless to stop it. I can't even discuss it on a local gun board without being attacked by so many brainwashed bliss ninny's.
Unfortunately I believe it is going to take a civil war to sort everything out and lots more people are going to die or enter a living hell...
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you found another gem Liberty Belle!
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Turns out the government has spent upwards of $1 billion on “common pain and psychiatric medications” for soldiers from 2001 to 2009.
wow!
nothing surprises me anymore...
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Sheer Irony and Sad
We have a government arresting people for peacfully smoking pot and here they are keeping our soldiers constantly drugged up with presciptions to keep them rotating back to the wars. Sick.
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sheer evil
when will all wars stop?
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This is so despicable that I don't even know what else to say about it....heavy sigh
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