According to army estimates, some 20,000 or more troops in the Middle East - nearly 30 percent of the total - are taking antidepressants or prescription sleeping pills so that "end" and the pressures of combat. An important side effect of antidepressant drugs - increased risk of suicide - Why can not commit suicide twice more troops before the war. And for those who can survive the war and the adverse effects of drugs, detoxification must first stopwhen they return home.
The FDA has officially warnings on antidepressant labels about the increased risk of suicide among children, young people have had together, and adults aged 18 to 24 years - the age group that constitutes the bulk of our forces in Middle East, and more likely to prescribe selective inhibitors of serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) such as Prozac and Zoloft. These antidepressants often lead to addiction and increase the need for drug treatment, whichsure.
A recent article in Time magazine in May suggested that there is a link between increased use of antidepressants and suicide increase troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. At the end of 2007, the army of suicide had reached 164, twice in 2001. The article says that at least 115 soldiers killed themselves last year, including 36 in Iraq and Afghanistan - the highest suicide rate since the start of his record in 1980. And they were prescribed for almost 40% of suicides in the Army in 2006 and 2007Psychotropic drugs.
Iraq veteran told Time, "is that you continue to receive medications consistently." He said that the fight against drugs, combined with the stress of soldiers inappropriate ... If there were more confused than just a train going in general. "
Antidepressants have created almost as many problems that had to solve, and not all scientists agree on its use. For example, a British study has confirmed that the new generation of SSRIs have not found significant improvementssomewhat 'more effective than no drugs at all. Scientists in Britain and the United States wondered whether patients with mild to moderate depression - one of the soldiers would be more - when prescribing these drugs.
Not only antidepressants that cause addiction and the need for drug treatment, which is characterized by severe and dangerous side effects - which are hundreds of suicides and violent attacks of various kinds have been involved. This has led toan increasing number of users of antidepressant medications for detoxification, the derivatives of the drug and seek safer forms of therapy.
Meanwhile, some 20,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq are against the prescription for stress, according to the article in Time. The army believes that the drug has allowed divided equally between troops taking antidepressants and sleeping pills like Valium prescribed.
But doctors have doubtsAbout this practice. Dr. Frank Ochberg of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies question: "Are we trying to bandage, which is essentially a lack of control of violence?" And Dr. Joseph Glenmullen, Harvard Medical School, sees a link between suicide in the army and the use of antidepressants. "Concerns the high percentage of U.S. soldiers attempting suicide after taking SSRIs should be serious," he said.
For the soldiers in the Middle East, an antidepressant may feelfirst as a welcome relief. But, like a sniper gun hidden can get the fatal damage of antidepressant medications with you when you least expect it, and with results that may be the same - the sudden violence, rage, or suicide. But, unlike the sniper, there is a side Up: While you're still alive, a detoxification program can help the safety of medicines.
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