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‎25 disturbing facts about psych drugs, soldiers and suicides

by Mike Adams

We are living in an age of upside-downs, where right is wrong, fiction is truth and war is peace. Those who fight the wars are subjected to their own house of mirrors via pharmaceutical "treatments." Instead of providing U.S. soldiers and veterans with actual health care, the government throws pills at them and calls it "therapy."

Stimulants, antidepressants, anti-psychotics, sedatives and pain meds are the new "fuel" for America's front-line forces. While the idea of sending medicated soldiers into battle was unthinkable just three decades ago, today it's the status quo. And the cost in human lives has never been more tragic.

Here are 25 disturbing facts about psych drugs, soldiers and suicides. They are disturbing because everybody seems to be pretending there is no link between psychiatric drugs and soldier suicides. So soldiers and veterans keep dying while the Pentagon (and the VA) keep pretending they don't know why. (Sources are listed at the bottom of this article.)

1) 33% of the U.S. Army is on prescription medications, and nearly a quarter of those are on psychotropic drugs

2) In 2010, the Pentagon spent $280 million on psychiatric drugs. That number has since risen.

3) There are now over 8,000 suicides each year by U.S. soldiers and veterans; that's over 22 a day

4) 33% of those suicides are attributed to medication side effects

5) That means medications are killing more U.S. soldiers and veterans than Al-Qaeda

6) 500% more soldiers abuse prescription drugs than illegal street drugs

7) Under the Obama administration, the number of veterans waiting for VA care has risen from 11,000 in 2009 to 245,000 today

8) More active duty soldiers die from suicide than from combat: 349 dead last year

9) The number of prescriptions for Ritalin and Adderall written for active-duty soldiers has increased 1,000% in the last five years

10) For every active-duty service member who dies in battle, 25 veterans die by suicide

11) Only 1 percent of Americans have served in the Middle East, but veterans of combat there make up 20% of all suicides in the United States

12) The suicide rate of active-duty soldiers in the Civil War was only 9 - 15 per 100,000 soldiers. The suicide rate of active-duty U.S. soldiers in the Middle East is 23 per 100,000. And casualty rates were far higher in the Civil War, meaning the Civil War was more psychologically traumatic.

13) In the Korean War, the suicide rate among active-duty military soldiers was only 11 per 100,000

14) To date, the Pentagon has spent more than a billion dollars on psychiatric drugs, making it one of the largest customers of Big Pharma

15) In 2010, over 213,000 active-duty military personnel were taking medications considered "high risk" by the Pentagon

16) In the years since the Iraq War began, twice as many soldiers of the Texas Army National Guard have died of suicide than in combat

17) Defense Secretary Leon Panetta calls military suicides an "epidemic"

18) Of all the branches of the military, the Army has the highest number of suicides each year, almost 400% more than the Marines

19) Most active-duty soldiers who take psychiatric medications consume a combination of three to five prescriptions

20) The use of prescription medications by active-duty soldiers is largely unregulated. Soldiers are given a bottle of meds and sent into combat. If they run out of meds, they are given a refill, no questions asked.

21) The mainstream media says the answer to lowing suicides of veterans is to take away their guns so that they cannot shoot themselves. This is the logical equivalent to trying to fix your car's engine by removing the "check engine" light.

22) The Pentagon is initiating new research (in 2013) to try to figure out why psychiatric medications cause soldiers to commit suicide. The research involves tracking brain activity by attaching electrodes to the skull.

23) One-third of military suicides are committed by soldiers who have never seen combat

24) In the last year, the military wrote over 54,000 prescriptions for Seroquel to soldiers, and all those prescriptions were "off label," meaning the intended use has never been approved by the FDA as safe or effective.

25) Dr. Bart Billings, a retired Army Colonel and former military psychologist, refers to psychiatric drugs as a "chemical lobotomy" for soldiers.

Sources for this article (in order of appearance)

http://www.naturalnews.com/Infographic-Epidemic-Psychiatric-Drugging-...

http://www.toxicpsychiatry.com/storage/Military%20why%20are%20we%20dr...

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2012/11/ap-military-suicides-out-of-con...

http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/in-this-issue-the-militarys-billi...

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2013/03/ap-report-says-suicide-danger-t...

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/02/17148761-why-modern-soldie...

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57563857/u.s-military-suicides-ex...

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2004/01/29/Army-wo...

http://www.stripes.com/blogs/stripes-central/stripes-central-1.8040/s...

http://www.prweb.com/releases/psychiatricdrugssuicide/10/prweb1000132...

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/039473_psychiatric_drugs_soldiers_suicides.html#ixzz2NWc16e4B

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Comments (5)

Laura Cerrano
Feng Shui Manhattan Long Island - Locust Valley, NY
Certified Feng Shui Expert, Speaker & Researcher

I wouldn't be surprise if this were the case, however I'd stay away from political rants on AR.

 

Mar 15, 2013 01:30 PM
Goodbye Active Rain
Out of Real Estate

Laura, "stay away from political rants."  Are you suggesting we continue to keep our collective heads buried in the sand and ignore reality?  This is what happens we do.  

Mar 15, 2013 01:50 PM
Richard Wilson
Cherry Creek Properties, LLC - Colorado Springs, CO
Town or Country, in Colorado, we do it all.

My youngest son really considered the military after he graduated.  I was shocked at how poorly the recruiting system works.  No wonder morale is low, when they can't even put their best foot forward to attract new recruits, there are serious problems.

Thankfully he did find a job, with a small construction company.  He is hoping to own his own company someday, so maybe things worked out for him,  but I pray for our military every day.

Mar 15, 2013 09:01 PM
Kristin Johnston - REALTOR®
RE/MAX Platinum - Waukesha, WI
Giving Back With Each Home Sold!

TOny, nice to see you back in the AR blog roll...not sure why you didn't get the points or why the big x is there?  Have a good weekend

Mar 16, 2013 12:27 AM
Dale Terry
Yadkinville, NC

Tony, can't say enough about the statistics, it is there if one wants to see it.   As to political rants, now that can get me riled up.  This is a blog. You get to say pretty much anything you want to say.  If readers don't like it, they can constructively explain the other side of the debate.  But they can't tell you to stop blogging.  It would seem that it is okay to rant about a bank that misses a deadline or even another agent, but the pc crowd doesn't want to hear about our soldiers dying. 

Who is going to take care of the pc crowd when they come for them?

Mar 17, 2013 03:00 AM