I would urge everyone to read John Fund’s piece on the homepage today regarding the VA’s pill-pushing role in soldier suicides. Also please watch Project Veritas’s report below:

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I can’t tell you how much this resonates with what I’ve seen with my own eyes. As a JAG officer, you spend an inordinate amount of time dealing with troubled soldiers — the men and women facing separation, nonjudicial punishment, and courts-martial — and I was struck by the extent of obvious (legal) drug dependency, most often a combination of pain-killers and anti-anxiety medications (what my doctor friends call “Xanatab” — a prescription of both Lortab and Xanax). I had more than one soldier tell me that ever since their prescriptions, they never felt like themselves — they never felt fully awake or alive — but they couldn’t imagine life without the medication. I began to suspect that powerful mood and life-altering medication was being prescribed simply as an easy way to “treat” PTSD — especially when that PTSD was combined with the effects of lingering wounds or other injuries from deployment.

There’s no doubt that some of these pills are necessary for short-term symptom relief, but drug dependency isn’t a lifestyle I’d wish on my worst enemy. Yet that’s the life the VA is “building” for all too many of our nation’s warriors. It’s hardly surprising that men and women find that life intolerable.