Prescription Drug Abuse Rises Among Iraqi Troops

[Duckfeet]

It never ends...and these are the *Iraqi* troops...not the U.S. troops in Iraq...and of course, the solution is the same one we tried, wich means they can just about guarantee it will get worse...


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/world/middleeast/21drugs.html?hp

[Opiyum]

Why is everything in this world backwards?

[SeVeN]

Wow poor guys. Seems like that Artane or whatever is a nasty drug anyways. Like you said though "it never ends"...

[bronyraur]

The saddest part of all is that it is a "problem" only because the government feels they have a right to dictate what people can put in their *own* bodies.

[roxi*stardust]

Artane maybe being abused but it is not a drug that will cause opiate-like or benzo-like withdrawal symptoms. It is for Parkinson's disease. The generic is trihexyphenidyl. It is not a controlled substance. It can be abused because it has stimulant effects.

http://www.rxlist.com/artane-drug.htm

[Narkotikon]

Hell, if I was forced to be in a war like that, I'd be using every damned day too. It's total bullshit: they get pegged as heroes if they follow all the rules, and don't question authority (even though the authorities are often stupid and have personal agendas), yet when they come home they have to deal with haters who say "how could you willingly participate in that war of shame," or to discrimination from their new addictions. I really do feel sorry for vets. Although, I will say it would be DAMNED nice to have one of those morphine auto-injectors that I hear they get to carry with them on dangerous missions. Hell, there's probably only 5mg in them though. Wouldn't do shit for me. I'd be totally DEAD, GONE, KILLED if I went to war or to prison / jail, which is why I'd committ suicide. I'm all for supporting your country IF that's what you want to do, but I'll be damned if I'm going to go to war against my will. I hate war, and I don't support the one's we're in. I think it's greedy stupid fucks profiteering from it. And the lower-classes have to pay the ultimate price.

I'm not surprised at all that people use in war-times, meaning the soldiers. Hell, the way Duckfeet talks, I'd have signed up just for the raw Vietnamese dope. Fuck fighting, I'll be off in my tent on the nod all day.

And FUCK (no, actually THUNDERFUCK) the people who say you're unpatriotic if you don't support the war. You can support your country and the troops without having to support a stupid war. I personally feel the military in the US should be like some in Europe. You can either be drafted, or pay a tax to be taken off the draft list. I'd sure as hell pay that tax. No way in HELL I'm going to war. I'd flee to Canada, or kill myself, and I'm DEAD serious about that. Hell, being gay won't even get you out of it anymore, and that was my old trump card.

[DCBA]

I have abused Artane in the past, its an anticholinergic that has some (very little) resemblance to PCP. But its more like Datura, i have abuse this when i was 17 and had nothing at the time. Altough i would prefer datura, but Artane was way less nauseaus and lasted a little bit less (not much tough..).
It has nothing to do with opiates.. and the stimulant effects exist but are way under the anticholinergic ones.. trust me, dont use this... and dont use datura as well.

Soldiers on Artane!!!! Thats not good.. If the doses are enough they are delirious... 5mgs is enough for most ppl to get delirious.. and even 2mgs on somepeople.. And the pills are made in 2 and 5 mgs i think.

[KiloByte]

The saddest part of all is that it is a "problem" only because the government feels they have a right to dictate what people can put in their *own* bodies.

Actually this is a problem. Its one thing if they're smoking weed but as DCBA stated this is a risky drug with dangerous side effects, not something you want the people in charge of maintaining order (the people with guns) to be abusing while on duty.