Soldiers can be deployed for several months at a time, meaning doctors often have to trust their patients to self-regulate their intake.
Service personnel can be given 180-days worth of pills to take to combat zones, with nothing to stop them trading medicines or grabbing handfuls of pills to dull a stressful day in the battlefield.
Grace Jackson, a former Navy staff psychologist, argues that there should be more controls on soldiers with mental health problems rather than less.
“The big difference is these are people who have access to loaded weapons, or have responsibility for protecting other individuals who are in harm’s way,”
read in full - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9193850/Prescribed-drugs-to-blame-over-spate-of-violence-among-US-soldiers.html
Service personnel can be given 180-days worth of pills to take to combat zones, with nothing to stop them trading medicines or grabbing handfuls of pills to dull a stressful day in the battlefield.
Grace Jackson, a former Navy staff psychologist, argues that there should be more controls on soldiers with mental health problems rather than less.
“The big difference is these are people who have access to loaded weapons, or have responsibility for protecting other individuals who are in harm’s way,”
read in full - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9193850/Prescribed-drugs-to-blame-over-spate-of-violence-among-US-soldiers.html
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