Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Doping Up the Troops

U.S. Central Command policy allows troops a 90- or 180-day supply of highly addictive psychotropic drugs before they deploy to combat, reports Nextgov.

The CENTCOM approved drug list is a mixture that includes drugs like Valium and Xanax, used to treat depression, as well as the antipsychotic Seroquel, originally developed to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, mania and depression.

CENTCOM policy does not permit the use of Seroquel to treat deploying troops with these conditions, but it does allow its use as a sleep aid, and allows deployed troops to be provided with a 180-day supply.

In an e-mailed statement to Nextgov, Col. John Stasinos, chief of addiction medicine for the Army surgeon general, and Col. Carol Labadie, pharmacy program manager in the Directorate of Health Policy and Services for the surgeon general, said soldiers are supplied with up to 180 days of medications because they "serve in remote areas without easy access to pharmacies. It is important that soldiers on chronic medications do not run out of them during combat operations, because not taking the medications can be as dangerous as taking too much medication."

A June 2010 internal report from the Defense Department's Pharmacoeconomic Center at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio showed that 213,972, or 20 percent of the 1.1 million active-duty troops surveyed, were taking some form of psychotropic drug: antidepressants, antipsychotics, sedative hypnotics, or other controlled substances.

Dr. Grace Jackson, a former Navy psychiatrist, told Nextgov she resigned her commission in 2002 "out of conscience, because I did not want to be a pill pusher." She believes psychotropic drugs have so many inherent dangers that "the CENTCOM CNS formulary is destroying the force," she said.

Dr. Greg Smith, who runs the Los Angles-based Comprehensive Pain Relief Group, said he was shocked by CENTCOM's drug policy for deployed troops. "If I was a commander I'd worry about what these troops would do," as a result of their medications, Smith said.

18 comments:

  1. That is called 'War on Drugs', brother!

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  2. Just dope them up so they can fight another day. What a bunch of crap how this government is deploying its men and women with this type of medication.

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  3. $$$ Ca-ching! $$$ Ca-ching! $$$ Mwahahaha!!!!

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  4. GOOD GOD JESUS, GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON IS SCREAMING OUT FROM HIS GRAVE, WHAT A VOMIT PRODUCING BIT OF INFORMATION. AMERICA IS TRULY THE MOST DISGUSTING NATION ON THIS PLANET, A MILITARY OF DOPE FIENDS WHO ARE INCAPABLE OF WIPING THEIR OWN ASS, LESBIANS IN COMMAND POSITIONS ON NUCLEAR SUBMARINES, DESTROYERS AND MISSILE CRUSERS, YOUR FINISHED AMERICA, ITS OVER...!!!

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  5. It's mind control, pure and simple. We have a "veteran" in our local police force, still on meds, still nuts. Tazed a deaf man, drew down on a homeowner investigating a barking dog incident. Lucky us, we got a doped up nutjob.

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  6. this is how you manage an expendable "human resource". so, what's the problem?

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  7. The war on drugs overtaken by the war on terror. It is the abuse of "war" that should be treated as an addiction.

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  8. Nazis were all on Benzedrine when pushing the Eastern Front towards Russia.

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  9. Nazis at the camps were also stoned all the time. Took the edge off their activities.

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  10. If this is true some of the so-called war crimes of the troops (Not political authorities) might actually be a result of the drugs. What a thought.

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  11. Hey!Don't forget the policy forcers,er,police farce,I mean police force jacked up on steroids.
    All those Nazi's we hired after WW2 for NASA (Von Braun),The meth heads (Butcher of Leon)Klaus Barbie,and Hitlers top spy General Gehlen we hired to build the CIA and NATO for us!After WW2 they were considered "good Nazi's".
    We hired their doktors too!
    So is it any wonder we have doped up soldiers?
    We have estrogen dominance in males.Men never needed Erectile Dysfunction pills before the American diet was accentuated with phtlate laden soft plastic bottles,Bispheonol A lined cans,and all the niice estrogen soy oils.Yummie.
    So the girls develop at like 7 yrs old,then get cancer and die!
    But the boys? They are estrogen dominant now,and they have been turned into girls.Thats why you need Don't ask Don't tell repealed because the boys are attracted to the feminine qualities of the other fella's!Theyy are still straight! They just see the woman in their fellow man.
    There are very few men left,but we have these male like creatures.
    Their development has been arrested,and they are like ten year olds at best.(See The Book The Fix Is In Brian Touhy)The girly boys of the USA are only allowed to cheer for their sports "fixed" boyfriends playing the fixed game.
    The police have been turned into girls also with the synthetic estrogens in EVERYTHING we eat.
    They are scared little girls in a fancy costume,and need steroids to try and act like what they think is a real man.Female police take them too.They want to be "tough"too.
    Whats the difference? They are all women.
    The males (used to be men)can only bitch like women about their long gone "Constitution"and forget that the Revolutionary cry in the 1700's was "No King but Jesus".
    Keep bitching girls!
    This is what happens to a nation that forgets God.
    Of course it's horrible.
    Till people learn their lesson,the chemical freak girly men will own you.

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  12. Do they get 180 days of food when they deploy? Hard to see that they would, I've never heard of military units carrying that much grub. So if they are resupplied with food, a far heavier and bulkier commodity, why would it be hard to resupply them with drugs? The only operational reasons I could think of is that a) they can't organise to actually deliver the right drugs on time consistently or b) they don't want to reveal soldiers prescriptions to his buddies. However since most drugs would have to be kept in refrigerators b) seems futile. It just seems to me that giving so much at once would simply result in the drugs degrading, leading to exactly the withdrawal problems they ostensibly seek to avoid. This policy would logically lead to a lot of expensive drugs being thrown out, or is that the point?

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  13. The American military increasingly look more and more like Vladimir Harkonnen's Imperial Sardaukar shock troops The Ironic twist however is the intentional undermining by their handlers of the entire force thus making it impotent in years to come. Most Americans don't realize that the mass destruction of it's own military by it's superiors has been underway for decades,and entire generations of young men and women are now chronically and permanently disabled via the compulsory medications inflicted on them by their own handlers, try 500,000 gulf war one troops who now suffer permanent damage due to toxic medications, vaccines and battle field exposure to chemical, biological and radioactive pollution. How long does it take for u Americans to join the dots ?? Your under attack from all sides by enemies within the gates. They bought their way inside centuries ago ! follow the money honey .

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  14. Would you trust anyone crazy enough to handle such an environment without medication? That'd be tantamount to being a Ted Bundy type, you know, like Dick Cheney.

    Oh that's right - he never served. He just slaughters pheasants by the hundreds at a clip from cagtes at his feet and calls that "hunting." Still seems like blood lust to me.

    Oh that's right - he was similarly self-medicated when he shot his pal in the face with a shotgun. I guess even he has a soft spot and has to get drunk before wanton slaughter. He sure had to get back to the lodge damn quick and pound down a couple before the police got there, as if they'd ever give such a noted fascist a breathalyzer test.

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  15. This country sucks. What will we do about it?

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  16. It is no more nor less than I would expect to learn of the policies of this or any other government predicated upon the initiation of violence to obtain its revenues. (True of all States.)

    From the President on down to the lowest bureaucritter, these are violent people who need to escape the reality of what they do to their neighbors, and drugs are one way to do it. When Jesus said, "Love your neighbor," the lawyer asked, "Who is my neighbor?" Jesus responded with the parable of the Good Samaritan.

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  17. Is this DoD report released anywhere? It's hard for me to come to a conclusion unless I have all of the information. While it's pretty messed up to dope the troops up on synthetic drugs - humans have a long history of taking psychoactive substances while at war: Ancient cultures used plants and mushrooms to get their battle highs, Opium and other narcotics were given to wounded soldiers in the American Civil War and in World War One, during World War Two amphetamine salts were widely used, and the cold war brought on "mind control" studies that distributed vast amounts of psychoactive drugs to soldiers and civilian test subjects.

    That doesn't make it "right", but there is more history to drugging our soldiers than just the ongoing Gulf War conflict.

    If there is a way to get this DoD study, I would like to read it.

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  18. the springerization of america

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