Two soldiers prescribed 54 drugs: military mental health "treatment".
Two Soldiers Prescribed 54 Drugs: Military Mental Health "Treatment" Becomes Frankenpharmacy The mental health watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) announces thesecond in a four-part series by journalist Kelly Patricia O'Meara exploring the epidemic ofsuicides in the military and the correlation to dramatic increases in psychiatric drugprescriptions to treat the emotional scars of battle. The second installment covers psycho-pharma's disastrous chemical experimentation within the military ending in suddenunexplained deaths, including those of Marine corporal Andrew White and Senior AirmanAnthony Mena who were prescribed a total of 54 drugs between them.
Los Angeles, California (October 31, 2012 -- By Kelly Patricia O’Meara, for the
"The devastating adverse effects mind-altering psychiatric drugs may be having on the nation's military troopsare best summed up by Mary Shelley's Dr. Frankenstein, writing 'nothing is so painful to the human mind as agreat and sudden change.'
"Just as the fictional character, Dr. Frankenstein, turned to experiments in the laboratory to create life withfantastically horrific results, the psychiatric community, along with its pharmaceutical sidekicks, has turned tomodern day chemical concoctions to alter the human mind. The result is what many believe is a growingnumber of equally hideous results culminating in senseless deaths, tormented lives and grief-stricken families.
"The nation's military troops are taking their lives at record numbers and seemingly healthy soldiers are dyingfrom sudden unexplained deaths. That's a fact. The data are clear, yet, despite growing evidence pointing to theenemy among us, the monstrous psycho-pharmacological experiment continues."
In the second installment of a four-part series, O’Meara examines the sudden unexplained deaths within themilitary tied to psychiatric drug use, including two soldiers who between them, were prescribed a whopping 54drugs including Seroquel, Effexor, Paxil, Prozac, Remeron, Wellbutrin, Xanax, Zoloft, Ativan, Celexa,Cymbalta, Depakote, Haldol, Klonopin, Lexapro, Lithium, Lunesta, Compazine, Desyrel, Trileptal and Valium.
• Marine corporal Andrew White, was a healthy 23-year-old, gung-ho Marine returning from a nine-month tourin Iraq, who, like so many of his brothers in arms, suffered from the seemingly normal stresses of war -insomnia, nightmares and restlessness. The young corporal turned to the military's mental health system forhelp. But eleven months after beginning his first cocktail of mind-altering psychiatric drugs, he died in his sleepfrom what the medical examiner ruled an "accidental overdose of medication." Since taking his first multi-drugcocktail to the date of his death, with many atever-increasing dosages.
• Twenty-three -year old Anthony (Tony) Mena had completed two tours in Iraq as part of Kirtland Air ForceBase's 377th Security Forces Squadron. Like so many others returning from combat, Mena suffered frominsomnia, restlessness and nightmares—and like Andrew White, became a victim of the military's mental healthmind-altering multi-drug approach to treatment. Between January of 2008 and his death in July 2009,
, including numerous antidepressants, pain killers,tranquilizers and muscle relaxers.
O'Meara details how these two men exemplify the ever-increasing numbers of young, seemingly healthysoldiers who survived the horrors of war only to return home to fight, and lose, their toughest battle. They areamong a growing list of , which many believe is due to sudden cardiacarrest brought on by the drug cocktails being prescribed. Fred Baughman Jr., MD, who has been researchingthese questionable deaths, believes that the few that are known are just the "tip of the iceberg."
Kelly Patricia O’Meara is a book author and former award winning investigative reporter for the WashingtonTimes, Insight Magazine. Prior to working as an investigative journalist, O’Meara spent sixteen years onCapitol Hill as a congressional staffer to four Members of Congress. She holds a B.S. in Political Science fromthe University of Maryland.
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