Overmedicating troops is common

[Maq]

Military Overmedicating Troops

Counselors and Therapists Charge the Military Tries to Medicate Its Veterans' Pain Away

By MANSI MEHAN and DAVID SCHNEIDER
Nov. 30, 2007

Instead of providing proper counseling and care for Iraq war veterans suffering from physical and psychological pain, too often the U.S. military is trying to medicate the problem away, according to drug counselors and therapists.

Andrew Pogany, who works with service members nationwide as an investigator with the veterans advocacy group Veterans for America, said overmedicating veterans is a common problem.

"Pretty much every person in my caseload is medicated, heavily medicated," said Pogany. "There's potential for them to become addicted."

SOURCE: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=3936723&page=1


No alcohol allowed, No Sex allowed, BUT Legal Prescriptions ARE....have as many as you LIKE.

How many uppers or downers did the pointman take before the Street patrol?

[unhappycamper]

1. I was at the VA hospital in Beford, MA last week.

Most of the men and women there are medicated to the gills. That just pisses me off to no end. :grr:

[Maq]

2. The government, at least in Canada, does the

same thing to the First Nations people. A drugged up Zombie is not likely to be an Activist for better conditions. In my opinion, this is another hidden reason why the government gives them legal drugs.

I suspect, this is also true of US Veterans.