{"id":310,"date":"2010-08-08T19:09:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T01:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=310"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:43:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:43:08","slug":"medicating-the-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/08\/medicating-the-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicating the Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/2010\/03\/military_psychiatric_drugs_031710w\/\">http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/2010\/03\/military_psychiatric_drugs_031710w\/<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At least one in six service members is on some form of psychiatric drug. &#8230;  The drugs come with serious side effects: They can impair motor skills, reduce  reaction times and generally make a war fighter less effective. Some double the  risk for suicide, prompting doctors \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and Congress \u00e2\u20ac\u201d to question whether these  drugs are connected to the rising rate of military suicides. &#8230; Defense  officials repeatedly have denied requests by Military Times for copies of  autopsy reports that would show the prevalence of such drugs in suicide  toxicology reports.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/articles\/1\/Army-Suicide-Report-Ignore-by-Martha-Rosenberg-100801-596.html\">http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/articles\/1\/Army-Suicide-Report-Ignore-by-Martha-Rosenberg-100801-596.html<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The long awaited 2010 Army report, &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/usarmy.vo.llnwd.net\/e1\/HPRRSP\/HP-RR-SPReport2010_v00.pdf\">Health  Promotion, Risk Reduction, Suicide Prevention<\/a>&#8216; considers the economy, the  stress of nine years of war, family dislocations, repeated moves, repeated  deployments, troops&#8217; risk-taking personalities, waived entrance standards and  many aspects of Army culture. What it barely considers is the suicide-linked  antidepressants, antipsychotics and antiseizure drugs whose use exactly  parallels the increase in US troop suicides since 2005.\u00c2\u00a0&#8230; But instead of  citing dangerous drugs and drug cocktails for turning troops suicidal (and  accident prone and at risk of death from unsafe combinations) the Army report  cites troops&#8217; illicit use of them along with street drugs. (The word &#8216;illicit&#8217;  appears 150 times in the Army report and &#8216;psychiatrist&#8217; appears twice.)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Write to General Peter W. Chiarelli, Army Vice Chief of Staff, and let him  know what you think [1400 Defense Pentagon, Washington DC 20301-1400].<\/p>\n<p>CCHR has been investigating and exposing the suicide risks of psychiatric  drugs and the psychiatric assault on society since 1969. For more information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/sideeffects.shtml\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least one in six service members is on some form of harmful and addictive psychiatric drug. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/08\/medicating-the-military\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-muddy-river-newsletter","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NMpC-50","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}