Tag: mental health and military
My Red October ā An Army Veteranās Crucible to Recovery
After my VA mental health team prescribed Prozac, I began experiencing rapidly escalating behavioral changes. The drug was never considered as a potential cause.
Broken Is Not All I’ll Ever Be: Military Veterans and Psychiatric...
I had been an excellent combat medic ā I had deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan totaling over 28 months of combat in Infantry and Cavalry units. Yet, after over six years on these psychiatric drugs, I felt reduced to a helpless being who would require assistance for the simplest of menial tasks.
Army Lifts Ban on Waivers for Recruits With Mental Health Issues
FromĀ USA Today: The Army will now allow recruits with a history of self-harm, bipolar disorder, depression, and drug and alcohol abuse to seek waivers...
How Our Military Discards Its Wounded Troops
FromĀ The Daily Beast: A newly released Government Accountability Office report found that 62 percent of military servicemembers who were discharged for misconduct between 2011...
The General who Went to war on Suicide
FromĀ Politico Magazine:Ā Having struggled with depression and suicidal thoughts himself, Major General Dana Pittard developed a unique approach to suicide prevention in the military: expanding...
Soldiers as Guinea Pigs: the Case of Mefloquine and Tafenoquine
Hundreds of Australian veterans have been diagnosed with serious neurological and psychiatric disorders, often mistaken for post-traumatic stress disorder, as a result of mefloquine, a neurotoxicant able to cause a ālasting or permanentā brain injury, and the experimental drug tafenoquine[.] Many maintain they were compelled to participate in trials of the drugs.
āSoldiers at War in Fog of Psychotropic Drugsā
āIn a small but growing number of cases across the nation, lawyers are blaming the U.S. military's heavy use of psychotropic drugs for their...