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Stonewalled at Fort Bragg
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Editor's Note from Brian Ross: In the third year of a joint project with the nonprofit Carnegie Corporation, six leading graduate school journalism students were again selected to spend the summer working with the ABC News investigative unit.
This year's project involved an examination of whether, as happened in the wake of the Vietnam War, Iraqi war veterans were turning to drugs as a result of the trauma and pain of war.
The U.S. military maintains the percentage of soldiers abusing drugs is extremely small and has not increased as a result of Iraq.
The students' assignment was to get the unofficial side of the story from soldiers, young men of their own generation.
Today's report is the fourth in a series of five reports.
Growing numbers of Fort Bragg soldiers are buying illegal drugs, often from crime-ridden neighborhoods located minutes off post, according to soldiers and security guards familiar with the drug scene.
But it's not something Army or civilian officials want to talk about. Base commanders, Army substance abuse counselors and the local police chief all refused repeated interview requests by ABC News to discuss potential drug abuse issues among Fort Bragg soldiers.
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November 29, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (3)
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I returned from a second tour of VN in 1972. It took until 1991 to get any information that I was suffering from PTSD. During that time I also used smoking pot to get the sleep I needed to function in our society. I was lucky that I wasn't ever caught by either military or civilian authorities. One would think that in 2007 that the military would now realize how to help these returning soldiers. Society will now pay for the consequences of those not able to get the proper help for their PTSD that leads to "self medication" in order to cope.
Posted by: Bill Casey | Nov 30, 2007 8:13:39 PM
I'm sorry, but nobody knows what those men & women go through everyday. I don't think it should go overlooked, however, let them be & get them government funded help. There are plenty of drug abusers out there that have no reason to use, do a 20/20 story on them. I know it's hard for vets to obtain pain medication, b/c Dr.'s are afraid of addiction. I think that is ridiculous. They've served their time, & lived through hell so we can have the freedoms we so take for granted. Let them smoke their weed in peace. Please do a show on ALL the good our military does every single day....not focus on the negative. Shows like tonight's, just give ignorant liberals one more reason to think we should "just pull out" of Iraq. Ugh!
Posted by: T.Rose | Dec 1, 2007 2:29:56 AM
those soldiers that do drugs should have joined the navy.
Posted by: kunta kinte | Jun 5, 2009 3:03:20 PM
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