Prayers UP for the family. This was on military.com.
Veterans Get Risky Painkillers
Week of March 19, 2012
Stars and Stripes reports that a new study has found that recent U.S. War veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) along with physical pain are often prescribed Morphine and similar powerful painkillers. Subsequent suicides, other self-inflicted injuries, and drug and alcohol overdoses were all more common in veterans with PTSD who received these drugs. The Department of Veterans Affairs paid for the study, which is based on VA health care data. An abstract of the study is available on the Journal of the American Medical Association website.
Katie, our war department has clearly outdone themselves on this one, sending soldiers back again and again from the safety of “the war’s on the back burner zone” to the death camp of “the IED blows up your buddy zone”.
And then they act surprised when it messes with some minds.
OF COURSE, it messes with minds. Beat up on people enough and some will piss themselves when you walk by and others will attack you. And there’ll be a whole range in between.