... look to alcohol, prescription drugs such as antidepressants, many claim use of both allows them to "numb the pain." There is even research about a synthetic drug known as bath salts or "spice." Soldiers are able to obtain these drugs easily, and due to their environment abuse often follows close behind. Chemicals that could be beneficial are abused ... . They often feel like drugs are the only way out. According to the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. (NCADD), 33% of troops who were convicted of criminal acts in Afghanistan and Iraq had committed offenses while un...

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... wartime it can be a twenty-four hour a day, seven-day-a-week job under very strenuous conditions. Often times a platoon will have to strip down in a field to change, or sometimes bath themselves in a river. This is not something that can be done in a gender-integrated unit. The intimacies of military life can go far beyond having to change clothes or urinate ... that of civilians. Some rights that civilians have like the right to indictment by a grand jury do not apply to the military. On the other hand, Congress has established some acts to be criminal offenses when done by a member of...

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