Nutrasweet? I hadn’t heard that particular conspiracy theory yet.

I may be mistaken, but that’s not much higher than the percentage of US civilians taking these medications. Does our military screen out recruits that are already taking medications? If so then these numbers are quite bad.

I’m not trying to downplay the tragedy here at all. Even soldiers not taking medication have lost a lot and will not be the same after this unjustified and criminal war that they were misled into fighting.

Big Pharm & the Medicated Nation.

(Though actually sad in reality.)

So war is good for the Big Pharmaceuticals. There are studies that show an increase in suicides in young people that take SSRI’s like Prozac and Paxil.

Dope ‘em up and send ‘em in.

Once they get hooked they won’t be able to leave the service. or even better – they won’t realize they are in the service.

Presto – permanent ‘volunteer’ military.

Longer rotations off duty, a limited number of career tours, and better political leadership is what they really need.

The Zoloft isn’t what’s making them commit suicide. Killing civilians, watching your friends die, feeling trapped, living in constant fear, knowing that you’re going to have to go out and do it over and over again, getting divorced – those are the things that I think are driving this.

I’m no fan of drug companies, but the strongest correlation between antidepressants and suicide is that alot of depressed people take them.

Meanwhile, we need more mental health care for these kids, not less. Drugs are part — only part — of that program.

Thanks for listening.

All of bush’s buddies need to get a big, fat, juicy slice of our tax-dollar pie!

PEACE

JT
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I have several instances where medication/healthcare has failed.

1) A friend’s daughter who had strept ended up in the hospital because the antibiotics failed and she had mono.

2) Someone else I work with has a daughter who was taking Cipro for a minor ailment, which has been ongoing for several months. Still the same.

3) Another coworker took antibiotics for a routine, although crappy, virus and was in the hospital for a week.

And as an aside, my fiance is having a “procedure” that shoud be outpatient, and he’s off for two weeks. Who benefits? In all these instances, the insurance co’s.

I think we should eat organic. I think we should question everything. And, unfortuately, we need to either fend for ourselves, or stand up for ourselves.

And I’ll be the first to tell you I don’t know how.

im convinced that if people who dont have chemical imbalances are given anti-depressants that they often have adverse reactions and probably are made worse by the “medication”…

im sure big pharma is happy to make the money though

Back then the CIA was trafficking so they could finance some 30,000 “irregulars” in Laos.

Battlefield veteran suicides from smack overdoses once they got home was fairly common back then. Now the Pentagon apparently has veterans taking themselves out in their sleep by mixing over-prescribed meds with alcohol. It’s a lot cheaper than actually paying for rehabilitative therapy for PTSD.