Hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops depression, forced the Defense Department supervise the use of drugs

Wed May 25, 2011 4:07 am

WASHINGTON - The number of U.S. soldiers returning from missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, 300,000 of whom reported suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury, and depression. Thus, U.S. military doctors increasingly using this type of medication for mental illness to care for the soldiers. This amount is larger than previous wars.

The more the extent of use of these drugs cause problems, other masalh, including drug dependence, fatal accidents, and suicides among soldiers. The availability of prescription drugs also contribute to increased drug abuse, especially opium, among the soldiers. This was reported by Press TV correspondent in Washington, Rhonda Pence.

Not only that, stacked obatjuga stock is a cause of overdose cases among American soldiers. Nonmedical use of drugs among the military also have fatal consequences. Last year, five U.S. soldiers who drank Hasish claimed to have killed three civilians in Afghanistan.

Recent data revealed that military spending to buy drugs mental illness were $ 280 million by 2010, double the total in 2001.

One example of that experienced by a senior U.S. Air Force soldier, Anthony Mena. Towards the end of his life, Mena hardly ever leave the house without carrying and backpack full of drugs.

Upon his return he was from the second assignment in Iraq, Mena often complain of back pain, insomnia, anxiety, and frequent nightmares. Doctors later diagnosed he was suffering from PTSD and prescribed psychiatric drugs, liquor, and narcotics.

Instead of recovering, she became more suffering Mena, this is the case with depression. "I was almost desperate," said Mena told doctors in 2008 as seen in the medical records. "I should die in Iraq," he added.

Mena who were aged 23 years, was found dead in his apartment in Albuquerque on July 21, 2009, exactly five months after leaving the job in the Air Force for medical reasons. From a forensic study found eight types of drugs in blood Mena, including three types of anti-depressant drug, a sedative type, a type of sleeping pills and two types of painkillers.

According to paramedics, Mena did not commit suicide. That claimed his life not because of an overdose of drugs, but because so many drugs taken.

As noted SuaraMedia.com, after ten years of treating thousands of wounded soldiers, the military medical system was flooded with prescription drugs which can sometimes be deadly. These drugs, including narcotic painkillers, many associated with increased permasalahn like drug addiction, suicide, and fatal accidents.

Based on military reports about the U.S. soldier suicides, which was released last year, stated that one-third of U.S. soldiers drank at least one type of drug. "The use of prescription drugs increases," he stated in the report.

The drugs have a role in one-third of 162 cases of suicide by active soldiers in 2009. While from 2006 to 2009, 101 other soldiers died of drug poisoning.

"I am not a doctor, but I know that fewer and fewer drugs are prescribed, then we will only get better," said Deputy Chief of Staff Army Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, who led the fight against suicide.

Awareness about the dangers of drug excess make the U.S. Defense Department to increase oversight of the administration of drugs and limit their use among soldiers.