VCS Warning Comes True: Military Finally Admits Major Drug Abuse Crisis

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http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/index.php/national-security/1533-gregg-zoroya


About one in four soldiers admit abusing prescription drugs, most of them pain relievers, in a one-year period, according to a Pentagon health survey released Wednesday.

The study, which surveyed more than 28,500 U.S. troops last year, showed that about 20% of Marines had also abused prescription drugs, mostly painkillers, in that same period.

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"We are aware that more prescription drugs are being used today for pain management and behavioral health issues," Brig. Gen. Colleen McGuire, director of the Army Suicide Prevention Task Force, said Wednesday. "These areas of substance abuse along with increased use of alcohol concern us."

The survey showed that pain relievers were the most abused drug in the military, used illicitly at a rate triple that of marijuana or amphetamines, the next most widely abused drugs.

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Prescription drug abuse is "an issue for American society as well, and we're looking at it from every possible angle," McGuire said.

(so is alcohol)
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however, its a job. better then no job back home in the US.