Last year more US troops died by suicide than died in combat in Afghanistan. More than 20 percent of military personnel deployed to combat will develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Some 32 percent of US soldiers reported depression after deployments. More than 20 percent of active-duty military are on potentially dangerous psychotropic drugs; many are on multiple types. Violent crime among active duty military members increased 31 percent between 2006-2011.
The statistics, compiled by the military last year, are as telling as they are disturbing. The Defense Department scrambles to implement new programs to better treat the symptoms. They implement new substance abuse and psychological counseling programs while they continue to prescribe more dangerous psychotropic drugs. Unfortunately, most often ignored are the real causes of these alarming statistics.
The sharp rise in military suicides, drug and alcohol abuse, and domestic and other violence, is the unintended consequence of a violent foreign policy – of an endless and indefinable “global war on terrorism.”
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2 comments:
Of course its everyone elses fault!! No need to impose any investigation of the FDA or big pharma!!! The truth...anti depressants are responsibile for all above normal tragegys...some of the side effects involve suicidal thoughts which appears to be far worse and some ... even pick up a gun
It must be very depressing to be fighting in a war where the people you are protecting are shooting you, your commanders tell you not to shoot until shot at, you are told not to display or portray any thing to do with Christianity, you are to show reverance and awe for anything Moslem, and last but not least your commander and chief is a communist Muslim with disdain for the military.
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