The 6-day meeting also included a celebration, she reports, "15 military and federal doctors and other health professionals received awards that included cash prizes provided by various drug companies."
On March 17, 2010, Navy Times ran the headline, "Medicating the Military," to report a Military Times investigation that found 1 in 6 service members is on some form of psychiatric drug.
"And many troops are taking more than one kind, mixing several pills in daily "cocktails" -- for example, an antidepressant with an antipsychotic to prevent nightmares, plus an anti-epileptic to reduce headaches -- despite minimal clinical research testing such combinations," the Times noted.
The investigation also found that drugs originally developed to treat bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are now commonly used to treat symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, such as headaches, nightmares, nervousness and fits of anger.
"It's really a large-scale experiment. We are experimenting with changing people's cognition and behavior," says Dr Grace Jackson, a former Navy psychiatrist and author of the book, "Drug-Induced Dementia: A Perfect Crime," in the article.
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