Are We Giving Our Soldiers Drugs That May Make Them Kill Themselves?

[Demeter]

http://www.alternet.org/health/148444/are_we_giving_our_soldiers_drugs_that_may_make_them_kill_themselves/?page=entire

...More troops are dying by their own hand than in combat, according to an Army report titled "Health Promotion, Risk Reduction, Suicide Prevention." Not only that, but 36 percent of the suicides were troops who were never deployed.

The unprecedented suicide rates are accompanied by an unprecedented rise in psychoactive drug rate among active duty-aged troops, 18 to 34, which is up 85 percent since 2003, according to the military health plan Tricare. Since 2001, 73,103 prescriptions for Zoloft have been dispensed, 38,199 for Prozac, 17,830 for Paxil and 12,047 for Cymbalta says Tricare 2009 data, which includes family prescriptions. All of the drugs carry a suicide warning label....

[yurbud]

1. if the problem is overwhelming guilt, antidepressants won't help.

[Politicalboi]

2. How sad

This is war. And now it's coming home to roost. I still can't believe that Bush/Cheney still walk the streets free assholes. You can't erase the pictures they must have seen there. Or the killings they caused there, or the buddies they lost. We need accountability for this disaster.

[JohnWxy]

3. Important question. This needs to be looked into.

tried to recommend but was beyond the 24 window.

[midnight]

4. It kind of sounds like it.... Wow that is alot of drugging going on....