Drugs To Kill By

Societal Ills Compounded:

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/03/military_psychiatric_drugs_031710w/

At least one in six service members is on some form of psychiatric drug.

“It’s really a large-scale experiment. We are experimenting with changing people’s cognition and behavior,” said Dr. Grace Jackson, a former Navy psychiatrist.

A Military Times investigation of electronic records obtained from the Defense Logistics Agency shows DLA spent $1.1 billion on common psychiatric and pain medications from 2001 to 2009. It also shows that use of psychiatric medications has increased dramatically — about 76 percent overall, with some drug types more than doubling — since the start of the current wars.