The tragic death of Prince appears to have been an overdose of opioids designed to relieve pain. While we are still awaiting toxicology reports, it does appear the Prince has suffered from excruciating pain for quite some time and was taking ever-increasing amounts of pain-killers to deal with this problem.
At this stage, it is unclear that these drugs were prescribed or that he was self-medicating with drugs obtained ...
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U.S. Military Now Operating in Yemen
For the first time, the Pentagon on Friday acknowledged publicly that the U.S. military is ...
The search to help Veterans and active duty military personnel cope with Post Traumatic Stress (“PTS” or “PTSD”) continues to attract much attention from within the scientific community and alternative medicine pundits.
It seems that almost weekly some promising new cure to treat Veterans with PTSD appears on mainstream media, with the caveat that “it will take years” to prove its efficacy. Must our Veterans wait so long?
While many doubt the efficacy of holistic medicine and practices that date back centuries in the Far ...
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DEA approves Marijuana Study for Veterans with PTSD
Drug regulators said it would never happen, but now the DEA has approved ...
War produces many unforeseen consequences. Not all of these “consequences” are detected – let alone understood – at the time they occur, but the long term effect can be quite unsettling to society for many years after a “war” has ended.
While it has long been known that trauma occurring in combat can create radical changes in a person’s behavior, it has only been in the last few years that behavioral scientists and those in the medical profession have actively been identifying ...
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Military Pay Raise of 2.1% for 2017?
Troops would receive a 2.1 percent pay raise in 2017 under a plan ...
I admire the Greek classics, in particular Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. As such, I was intrigued by a Greenwich “Continuing Education” course entitled “What the Greeks Knew About PTSD.” Also, the course was being taught by a professor I respected and, as such, was very much looking forward to become reacquainted with the classics and, perhaps, gain a few insights into PTSD.
In addition ...
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Military Families Moved Out of Turkey
The U.S. military has ...
The Atlantic just published a lengthy article entitled “The Drugs That Built a Super Soldier” describing how Vietnam military personnel were provided drugs to enhance performance or mask pain and injury. The author, Lukasz Kamienski, reports that:
Continue Reading →The conflict was distinct in another way, too—over time, it came to be known as the first “pharmacological war,” so called because the level of consumption of psychoactive substances by military personnel was unprecedented in American history. The British ...
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PTSD: War Disorder Beyond the Battlefield
By the time I got home, though, I wasn’t thinking about that or any of ...