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Potential to Treat Psychological Pain One of the most intriguing new findings regarding opioid use came out of a study including 696 Navy and Marine troops who were injured in combat in Iraq between 2004 and 2006. Published in the New England Journal of Medicine in January, the study found that soldiers who were given morphine during resuscitation and treatment for physical trauma were half as likely to develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as those who did not get the drug. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...diners. Not to be outdone, members of the ruling conservative Union for a Popular Majority (UMP) have also fretted over Quick's menu change. UMP secretary general Xavier Bertrand says it is undermining France's secular, integrationist social model, while UMP parliamentarian Richard Mallié salutes Vandierendonck's "republican combat...
...accountability for the failure to properly handle a murderous, dysfunctional soldier. In late 2005, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division took control of a stretch of land just south of Baghdad that had come to be known as the Triangle of Death. Experiencing some form of combat nearly every day, suffering from a high casualty rate and enduring chronic breakdowns in leadership, one of the battalion's platoons - 1st Platoon, Bravo Company - fell into a tailspin of poor discipline, substance abuse and brutality. In March 2006, four 1st Platoon soldiers - Specialist Paul Cortez, Specialist James Barker, Private First...
...colonel personally counseling a private is, it is worth noting, an exceedingly unusual event. During their talk, Green wanted to know, "Why can't we just shoot them all?" A few days before that, Green had met with Lieut. Colonel Karen Marrs, a psychiatric nurse practitioner, for a combat-stress counseling session. During that meeting, Green declared several times that he was obsessed with killing Iraqis. (One entry that Marrs scribbled on Green's intake evaluation sheet read, "Interests: None other than killing Iraqis.") After these and numerous other similar encounters with senior leaders, Green was almost immediately sent back...
...aftermath of Green's crimes, just a routine Army investigation known as an AR 15-6, which was completed by a single lieutenant colonel in five days. Nor, for that matter, was anything other than a 15-6 ordered after Sergeant John Russell killed five fellow soldiers at a combat-stress center on an Army base in Baghdad in May 2009. Inevitably, this raises questions of whether a double standard is at play. Is the Army serious about accountability only when a soldier murders other soldiers on U.S. soil and the shooter is an Islamist? There were no disciplinary repercussions...