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"Disposable Heroes": VA Testing Dangerous Drugs on War Veterans


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The government is testing drugs with severe side effects like psychosis and suicidal behavior on hundreds of military veterans, using small cash payments to attract patients into medical experiments that often target distressed soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, a Washington Times/ABC News investigation has found.

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I think that this is going to be a big story in the coming months. There was an interesting interview / Q&A with the Executive Editor of The Washington Times on C-SPAN this morning, too.
edmubnd

3 responses // "Disposable Heroes": VA Testing Dangerous Drugs on War Veterans

  • At issue here is the fact that veterans are not being given proper warning of dangerous side effects. And in some cases, the drugs themselves are exacerbating the very problems that they were designed to control.
    edmubnd
  • Truth be told once you take the oath for military service and are issued your military ID you are by US law no longer a US citizen you are then US military property like a truck, a tank, a toilet seat, or a plain, the only difference is those other items if damaged can get replacement parts and be reused human beings on the other hand can not. So cash payments are only a CYA ploy to make the DR. or other medical professionals doing this to our (volunteer=by way of our planned poor ass educational system) service members feel better about themselves.
    LetsgetRealpeople
  • I served in Afghanistan for six months and Iraq for a year with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault).

    Upon being honorably discharged in 2005, I sought evaluation and care at the VA facility in Boston, MA (Jamaica Plain facility).

    Within a month of beginning weekly sessions with a psychologist who refused to ask the relevant questions, I began receiving calls from the VA, offering me all sorts of opportunities to try this or that medical study?

    I recognized many of the pharmaceutical brand names that were being dropped.

    I had just begun evaluations for a psychological injury. However, before they even made a half-hearted attempt at diagnosing me, they were offering me the opportunity to be experimented on with medications commonly used to treat bee stings, sore throats, acid reflux, and rashes.

    They never prescribed cannabis, of course.
    Sholom

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