ever since i was a little kid you know i always loved the military and love the army and i think i always knew that i wanted to you know join i just said you know i want to go and experience it you know and you know just to serve my country you know what recruits station you know i said i want to jump out airplanes and ride motorcycles and right then they said we got a job for you you know but you know i did it no it's good it was right after combat so you know i started getting these dreams and flashbacks and all that stuff and then you know kind of like big zaya d l s stuff and and i went to my doc and they said yeah we you us in my experience i didn't see anything helping at all i felt like i was making everything worse again like how how many like forty pounds taken to meds we looked it up and that one med i don't remember w called but it said it act like it had like fifteen hundred calories every pill you tip and i had to take it three times a day if you missed a dose then every the whole family would know the whole house would be kind of on edge because you couldn't talk to him he had he would snap you take your meds and you could just start feeling going down and then you just say bam and you're just years abi you know it almost seemed like he just didn't care about life anymore he he was in himself my body was breaking down and my wife she's all the nerves and she she's you know she said this isn't right and that what  know that was the straw that broke the camel's back and the wasn't working and something had to be done i didn't want to lose my husband i didn't want him to kill himself and i didn't want to be killed as well in the process i knew i was it me you know it was the drug that was who was doing it and and i knew i had to change or i'd be dead and that's why change there is a huge problem with suicides in the military since two thousand and two the rate in the us ranks as almost double the the suicide rate has really been going out the roof here lately with our military members  while they're still in and once he returned back to the states i would move from base to base to base and i'd be on different missions and different times then one minute i'm on a base and i'm having lunch and just be a nice hey did you hear about those those three guys are those three soldiers committed suicide it was a black eye on and four bless soldiers are dying left and right provide ample dast we're talking suicides we're talking about these soldiers getting in their cars going or motorcycles going hundred  fifty miles an hour and you know hitting a median family violence and it really spiraled out of control with all this happening psychiatry's continued to hand out psychiatric drugs in volume drugs well known to increase violence and suicidal thinking my psychiatrist at the time had issued me a recommend and i took one and i think within thirty minutes i had thoughts of suicide they started me really low dose to build it in my system but even the low dose i was still feeling side effects of suicide depression anxiety i did notice that there was a lot of times that i thought i you know that it would just be better to be dead and to keep living like the hat and i look back on it now and i do realize that it was the yes there can be reasons for suicide in today's military that don't involve psychiatric drugs but it would be stupid to ignore the drugs influence just as the troops with boots on the ground i was military place actively working as a police officer on the military installation and in one week i went to about eight or nine suicide attempts where the person either overdosed or you know said that he was going to kill himsel something like that and one for one every single person was on psychiatric drugs because of my role as a criminal investigator i didn't witness the soldiers while they were taking psychiatric drugs all i got to see was after the suicide or after the death and then the reports come out we'd get called pretty often to investigate we would have an autopsy performed and would include a tux a logical exam which would determine any drugs in the system and usually there was some type of drug a lot of them were taking some sort of medication for depression or anxiety there were a lot of suicides happening in the military  overseas in theater and back in the states from two thousand and nine to two thousand and twelve more u s soldiers died by suicide than from traffic accidents heart disease cancer and homicide the u s secretary of defense called it an epidemic so yeah it's a problem some of claim that this is because of the stresses of war but eighty five percent of military suicides never even saw combat and fifty two percent never deployed meanwhile the competence of military psychologists is never even questioned and it's resulting in suicide attempts such as this one my son joined the army wanted to make a career and become something he was still sweet and more normal when he came back from iraq even though he had you know nervousness in crowds and p t s d he was not different in personality as far as you know to that degree like what we saw later on the drugs and so when michael said you know i have an anxiety issues i said you need to go tell them all and that's what really began his journey that  you know that was the the worst step to have in my opinion that we could have ever done you know it started off with one drug and went to to it with each successive symptom that he got he got a new drug and we noticed that he started to go down and personality wasn't our son anymore it was you know anger slurred speech it was surreal because the person i was talking to wasn't even my son he was i'm sure him self he didn't have any and he will to do anything that one point he stopped brushing his teeth drinking water feeding because he didn't care he didn't even know that he was that way and i researched and discovered that our soldiers were being medicated and that they were committing suicide from it so i printed all my research out and i handed it to my husband and i said to my husband tell me what you think of all this research and he came back to me and said if my calculations are correct there's a pattern here that matches our son's behavior and if my calculations are correct he's just about ready to commit suicide i was in the dollar store and he called me and said i don't want to upset you but i want you to know michael's ok but he tried to kill himself and he put two ivy's in his arms and he bled out in the bath tub and he was drawing in his blood on the walls he didn't even know he was committing suicide so his cognisance his reason was already usurped by these pills you know they take away who you are and he wasn't the same we had the hospital check him and they found at least nine drugs in his system and they're just the ones they tested for they were given my son drugs that had black box morning said if you're under twenty five you're taking this pill your risk a suicide is going up fifty percent risk of suicide but they were still given the pills what he went through was so horrific it's hard for him to talk about money allows us to speak because he wants to save his comrades he wants to save others who are going through the same thing who are being drugged with lethal cocktails me speaking as michael knowing the things that he has said to others he would say stay away from the pills it's a dead end psychiatry claim there are drugs save lives but they rarely discuss the serious risk of suicide why don't they because those black box warnings for eighteen to twenty four year olds that's the age range of nearly half of all deployed american soldiers and yet the use of psychiatric drugs in the u s military has soared seventy six percent since two thousand and one that includes any depressants that hand out to soldiers to prevent suicide there's no evidence there's no evidence that drugging stop suicide a reason i'm i'm saying this is because it is allege that somebody is suicidal you should medicate them except there's no evidence that medicating somebody or suicidal is going to prevent suicide there's substantial evidence that many drugs actually promote suicide and last year with a deity there were three hundred forty nine suicides among military personnel that's almost one a day literally one a day that's more suicides than were killed in combat and the military is very concerned in fact in two thousand and nine fort campbell kentucky was actually closed down by the base commander for a time because of they were having just an inordinate number of suicides suicides on fort campbell have to stop now the last i heard the v a was getting close to four hundred fifty calls a day to their suicide hotline which they set up years ago to handle the amount of veterans that have suicidal thoughts on a daily basis four hundred fifty calls a day it's a problem that has echoed through the halls of government one of the biggest concerns i have about the military is the inordinate number of suicides that have taken place among active duty and those who have left the military three years ago i got congress to hold hearings to examine the relationship between suicide and increase use medications and there was a direct parallel the amount of suicides were increasing proportionate to the amount of medications being introduced so do every precious cause suicide of course they do so don't blame the soldiers don't blame the military as a whole blame the corruption of the military by the psychiatric industry that is peddling false dangerous medicine that is peddling a kind of modern day quackery calling it treatment but the live ring suicide and as bad as it is an active duty veterans have it far worse they're themselves killing elves at a rate of twenty two a day one every sixty five minutes i was a very highly functioning noncommissioned officer i was a tin sergeant at the time i was kind of always being groomed for that next right i was getting sent to the right schools had the support of my cha command things were going really good after i witnessed this traumatic event and i last played it in iraq and that's when the medications really start coming i mean full force and like i said before i you know before i knew it i was nine to twelve different kind of medications and where i was going through the separation process and the army i had to get some physicals and evaluations from outside people these professionals would see my records come up on the screen and the amount of medications that i was put throughout my time in the army but especially the last couple years and they would literally gasp and they would they they were shocked at the at the amount of drugs the high doses of these drugs it it  like a six page rap sheet with all the ways psychiatric drugs can react on your body how to psychiatry's counteract a side effect from a drug they've given you can't sleep at night i mean they don't take you off the drug belly the raise the dosage which can cause more side effects or they'll add another drug which will add even more then another and another which was clear right away that they really had no idea what anything they were he was really going to do they said th dozens of of medications and when i say you know seven and i in drugs at one point i'd say that was very average i've i've heard as high as fourteen i know of some troops personally who were given up to twenty different drugs it's kind of depressing if you look at the number of medications that i've been on it's very thick it makes up a large portion of my medical file with the veterans administration and a lot of people were on not only psychiatric drugs but charges for their injuries and the combination would made then different people aren't the same people they're mixing and fed it means with painkillers and and i depressant and sleeping pills i mean even to the n learn that sounds insane this practice is so common they've even got a name for it pauly pharmacy and here's a little known fact many of these drugs have never been tested in combination which makes those taking the drugs little more than guinea pigs the danger escalates with every was the anti psychotic when us was at the was it a combination these guys don't know also in those they're supposed to take these because their doctor said they'll be better and in fact they only got worse and the problem is that there's no attention to the detail of what happens to these troops that are placed on them there's no follow up they're simply placed on i'm given i'm given a great big huge supply of them and they're sent out to fight in fact some american soldiers are routinely given up to one hundred eighty days worth of psychiatric drugs when they go to the front no supervision no restrictions just take them when they want to and what happens to it when they go into combat are they sharing with their friends who are there that's why i've been told by social workers corpsman medics that ninety percent of the troops and combat have a one time or other taken some type of psychiatric medication it's just a grand crazy insane pharmaceutical roulette that's being conducted at the expense of our nation's sons and daughters my husband never did drugs nothing never did anything and i dated him five years before i married him and he never did anything like that and then when he was in afghanistan a psychiatrist over there started given him the medications for depression and of course the pain that he was in because he had been hit and the first time he got hit they just are dragging him up and the second time he was hit is when they sent him home to me and two weeks after him being home the violence was so incredible i told him that we needed counseling or we just need to get a divorce because i couldn't live in the abuse that i had just gone through because my husband never treated me that way needless to say at that point i didn't realize that these drugs were affecting him one point time my husband was on twenty one drugs twenty one at one time i mean and it was craziness this is not i don't even know who this person is that i lived with i've tried to get him help right from the beginning with the drugs and they're refusing him any help they just get continuing to give him the drugs and he's not getting any treatment his physical needs are not being met and he's continuing to deteriorate on a daily basis has the whites of his eyes are now yellow they have a yellow attend to them his skin color gray and this happens often and we do have the fear that we will wake up in the morning and he's going to die every day we live that every day his daughter lives that every day i live that every day is today the day that he's going to die is today the day i'm going to get the call they need to give me my husband's life back is what they need to do they need to take him off the drugs so that he can think he can't thank he doesn't he doesn't know the horrible reality is that once on these drugs it's hell to get off them you can get addicted to some and as little as two weeks now we have soldiers coming back from the battlefield and they're addicted to  medications and they have a detox reaction back in civilian life and they begin to exhibit the side effects for which they were being pretty medicated so they become depressed they become suicidal not only is it dangerous to be on these drugs it's also very dangerous to come off of them in fact in many cases the suicides happen immediately after someone stops taking an anti depressant drugs so if you do that make sure you do it in a way where you have medical supervision and you have a support system in place so you can get off on those drugs safely trying to get off psych meds by yourself especially cold turkey is very dangerous because of the terrible effects you may experience hav just like with any street drug the doctor did not tell me if i did come straight off of these that there would be a worse effect i didn't know that so when i did coffee i fell harder is actually addictive drugs you know and i didn't know how to act what album their withdrawal process is is is rough and one of the things that i experienced is all these emotions all these feelings all these trauma all these all this sadness that wasn't being dealt with wasn't being cared for it was it was just being magic ated when i got off all those drugs it was like a floodgate even though you come off those pills there's a period of time for i think a long long time that that stuff is coming out of your system you know and sometimes you think that life would be better you were dead it's shocking how many soldiers are returning home addicted to psychiatric drugs a u s army investigation discovered that as many as thirty five percent of warrior transition units have a prescription drug problem and very often the addiction is not temporary but for a lifetime but it can get even worse than that because sometimes these drugs can turn deadly striking quickly and without any warning drugs whenever he had an issue with them they would increase either the dosage or the potency of the individual a bomb couldn't kill this for free but a bottle did chris baucus had to antidepressants to opiates at the drug out of hand in his system a total of twenty seven different prescriptions were found at the scene most of them recently prescribed the autopsy said it was the drug interaction that killed it something any doctor worth his salt could have predicted the case of chris baucus would turn out to be no different from hundreds of others only four hundred  fifty miles away stan and shirley white celebrated the safe return of their son twenty three year old marine corporal andrew white from the combat zone little did they know what would happen when he went for help to a local veterans hospital order change the medications on february twelfth two thousand and eight corporal white died in his sleep didn't even move just died the corners reports said it was a he shouldn't i bet he was one of four veterans only in their twenty's were found dead in bed in west virginia within just months of each other it took a dog investigation by cardiac suddenly the heart stopped for some reason tracking down every lead he discovered that each had been diagnosed with p t s d and all of them were taking the same potent cocktail of psychiatric drugs came across literature on the anti psychotic and they said that the anti psychotics have a particular danger they can stop the hark suddenly and hear these veterans all three were on a combination of drugs which can cause or lead to sudden cardiac death might not be the tip of an iceberg might there be others and to make a long story short that list grew to two hundred fifty three hundred and today it is three hundred fifty one probable cardiac death the risk of sudden heart cardiac death makes those drugs truly unfit for human consumption and yet they're being used like jelly beans in the military doubletalk another of those cardiac deaths was twenty one year old corporal chad bolling slager are you kidding super smart super super smart he was a lot of fun i played sports all of that like any normal kid was outdoors all the time he was battling to make found fan talk to everybody that's kind of you know what caught my eye in the his children wouldn't have to go he really felt like it was his duty as a citizen to participate when he came back we realized he was different he had asked his commander that you know he wanted to seek counseling he we were so night when he was on the drugs he seemed like he was just dumped up all the time he was disoriented he literally turned him into a walking zombie i mean after he would take that and you know him he was real was telling him and he'd take circle and then ten minutes later be gone back to his his pro boss who i got take my medication he just took it he wasn't in control i felt like and that and he just really didn't know what he was doing he wasn't going to but i when i heard the knock on the door and it was they had found chad and my thought was ok i have great where we were as it were a little shit you know i hadn't heard from him and he said that he was at the barracks i say ok is something wrong can i go see were supposed to be safe it was harder for us because we always expected if he's in the military he's in the marines we kind of expected that if he were to die he was going to die when he was out on deployment you know he and i blame the doctors for prescribing those pills those are the ones that never checked up on i and my walk out with all the other pills didn't take any of the pills away just kept giving him more pills and they're the ones good morning and  is call these deaths accidental overdoses but let's face it this borders on negligent homicide and as our soldiers succumb one by one to prescribe levels of these lethal cocktails you have to wonder if psychiatrists even care to find out why it's bad enough the troops are dying but this drug taking ripples far beyond the victim it can also affect the lives of those they love most i was with behind and first airborne division i was assigned to them doing the gun truck and convoy security operation iraqi freedom came out as a captain i got a total of twenty six months in combat when i came out returned home from operation iraqi freedom if anyone that mark that they had seen combat or had seen someone killed or had participated in combat operations directly it was mandatory that you went to mental health i myself was prescribed prozac depakote and that and a one times olof one night and i'll never forget this as long as i live one night i had laid down and i had taken my pills and i took a shot of jack daniels that that time i had my children staying with me so i didn't get drunk or anything like that in drank really having and for some reason i decided to sleep on the couch this time and i can remember opening my eyes and not being able to move my arms and my legs and literally feeling like i was choking to death and my son who's was thirteen at the time he came in and obviously i was making some noises and he shook me so hard that i fell off of the couch and that kind of woke me up but literally i felt like i was dying and i can't help but think if my son wasn't there to wake me up what i have been a statistic maybe active duty or veterans a soldier on drugs can negatively affect the rest of his family what we're seeing is that now this this label of being broken and disordered is not only being utilized with our troops but it's now also extended with their families you hear stories about these young children that are living with the deployed mommy or daddy who just can't handle the deployment so what happens is these troops that were deployed come home whether or not they saw combat doesn't matter they're still being forced to take a subjective questionnaire psychiatric questionnaire and based off of the results are getting told do these drugs and when they take the drugs they become somebody that's different they want that child remember them to be now that child has to deal with coping in a way that is very different than what they had to deal with when the parent was initially home that child can't handle it so what happens mama that says the child needs to go see somebody for help that child go cease seeks help the child has that same drugs that mommy and daddy's instead of dealing with the problem the right way it's a lot easier to give a kid a pill which ultimately destroys that young my youngest son dino was a very funny little prankster with lots of friends in the neighborhood he was loved by his teachers at school we would go out fishing or hunting or just playing around out in the woods so we did we were able to spend quite a bit of time together whenever i wasn't gone home training or deployment for the army daniel began having trouble sleeping very shortly after he left and and he was worried that his dad wouldn't come home he was worried that his dad was going to get killed and we saw the psychiatry just for ten or fifteen minutes and he prescribed something to help him sleep and also select so i when she started telling me about the medications i was very concerned and overall it seemed to me that you know the situation was continuing to progress and he was just getting worse my husband came home from iraq three months early because of my concerns i was very concerned at the personality change to becoming much more withdrawn and sad and depressed he was having some bizarre behavior  he began cutting himself at school and he began having hallucinations or you never had any of those behaviors before being put on the drugs we were all here at the house he was out of our side for ten or fifteen minutes and he had snuck in and and when he got into his room and i said james to go find daniel to help in the he was an innocent little boy who was just worried about is that who prayed every night dad would be safe that would come  angels with protecting but there wasn't any money to protect my son psychiatry in the military took our youngest son from us and rand our family children are a huge target for psychiatrists one point nine million of them have a parent in the military in a million have had a parent deployed and when you're a little kid worried about mommy or daddy that makes you fair game the numbers of of children who have been put on drugs within the military tri care system is astounding you know it's just exploding so it has an effect the ripple effect on the entire family unit now today we're finding out outpatient psychiatric treatment for the children of deployed active duty service members has reached an all time high at two million visits how many drugs are these children being forced to take now whatever it is it's high according to a study in the journal of the american academy of child and adolescent psychiatry ninety one percent of all kids visiting a child psychiatrist come away with a psychiatric drug is this really what we want for our children you have to wonder why with all this failure psychiatry is keep hurting people drugging them addicting them creating violence  suicide it is for the most disgraceful of reasons psychiatry is say the disorders like p t s d can't be cured instead they claim they need to be managed with drugs for the rest of your life it's bad medicine but great for the bank account once you label somebody and you start medicating him over the life of that person it's going to cost the government about a million and a half to provide these men cations intrigue there's a lot of money to be made here it's a lot of money to be made by the  companies that are producing these drugs profit is the only conceivable motive for all of these psychiatric drugs and military taxpayers are footing the bill for this travesty of medicine these psychiatric drugs that promote suicides you're paying for so why does psychiatry is hand out drugs at such record levels because drugging people is a lot easier than actually helping them and because of this explosion of psychiatric drug  psychiatry has developed a very close relationship with drug companies and they'll tell you all about it  unfortunately almost everywhere you look you'll find financial conflicts of interest take matthew friedman a psychiatrist and executive director of the v a s national center for p t s d not only has friedman been a paid speaker for three different drugmakers he also sat in the scientific advisory boards of the pharmaceutical companies that make paxil and zoloft and guess what these happen to be the only two well for being very useful for the treatment of anxiety and combat related nightmares not only is seroquel totally unapproved for that purpose it's linked to sudden cardiac death soldiers call it sara kill on the street it's baby heroin that same year richie starred in a web cast partially bankrolled by sarah calls me maker in which he continued to push the use of psychiatric drugs on the battlefield course i'm a and former brigadier general stephens a novice when he was in the army he pushed hard for frequent psychiatric screening of soldiers the more the better today the army screens its soldiers as many as five separate times including a mandatory psychiatric screening when returning home from deployment and a follow up six months later and these screenings are loaded with conflicts of interest the development of one questionnaire recommended by the army surgeon general was funded by pfizer the maker of the antidepressant zoloft another screening program for service members and their families is administered by a group given millions of dollars from eight different drug companies but they're not as wants his own piece of the pie he stands to make millions as c e o of a corporation selling a brain scanning device he plans to use to diagnose p t s d bottom line with psychiatry it's all about money certainly not about help and yet without reforming this broken and ineffective system the united states department of veterans affairs recently hired sixteen hundred more mental health fool's errand and for the soldier who joined out of duty and served with honor it all boils down to one word the trail one of the things i have the benefit of really is getting thousands of e mails a  while claiming you're treating them to call it medicine and deliver death and it's all so needless because there is hope and it doesn't involve psychiatric treatment look around and unfortunately you'll find a world saturated with psychiatry but there are safe effective and workable solutions and they can be found in the main word for soldiers and not only soldiers but anybody suffering from any type of mental so called mental illness is out there's hope that there's hope out there there's solutions out there things are available for you to get your life back to not have suicidal thoughts to not end your life does not include psychiatric drugs there is a way to solve this it's to get rid of the drugs and start treating soldiers like human beings not rats that's the solution to vets who get over their war and do it on their own do it with friends do it with colleagues do it in support groups they're doing it's separate and  from the medical interventions if you talk to lodge when they get together they help one another for support when enough that they are aware of fellow feeling fellow understanding psychiatr having the opportunity dish wrapped up process by using drugs can often be disrupted rather than supporting a soldier does need help he needs care and love and friendship and you know whatever else is going to make him feel better personally but he does not need psychotropic drugs true medical care can begin with a full searching physical examination by a competent medical doctor to check for any underlying injury or illness that may be causing emotional distress every symptom should be investigated for physical origins because if you don't do that almost someone someone who has a real physical symptom is being labeled as having a psychiatric symptoms which is a false by making sure that we clear up any physical issues we begin to make the soldier the veteran feel better once they begin to feel better they feel better physically they feel better emotionally and they're able to deal with some of the issues relative to the it's also made me really look real hard at the damage of those drugs were doing me while i was there was that type of incident that catalyzed my resolve to aborting the system that i was in and moving forward with a non pharmaceutical approach which has been phenomenally successful for me i'm not the same person but there are still many soldiers right now very much at risk for being ordered on to psychiatric drugs that's why it's vitally important to know your rights there is an obligation for the service to take care of our sons and daughters that are sacrificing themselves and giving an oath to defend the constitution with their life and that's a big deal the command may say you have to go to see a psychiatrist because we believe you to be unstable so does he have to show up for the appointment the answer is yes however once you go into that therapist's office you are not required to participate in that treatment so on occasion i have people that call me and ask me you know can i say absolutely underlying this right to refuse is one of the most important rights of all informed consent informed consent means you have the right to be informed in advance of all risks and benefits of the proposed psychiatric treatment any alternative treatments and the option of no treatment at all do active duty military have a right to informed consent absolutely but these soldiers marines are not informed as to all the consequences of these medications because if you were truly informed as to the consequences of taking these drugs would you really take them you know and the answer is most likely no informed consent is just one of many rights you have under the military code of the united states numerous other countries also offer informed consent rights but it is up to you to demand it get involved and tell others about these rights many courageous survivors of military psychiatry and their families are speaking out right now and they could use your help i don't want other families to experience what we've experienced keep speaking out mom even if you only help one person just keep speaking out my goal is not just tell anthony's story but i feel it's a story that's not unique it's something that's happening to so many of our troops as an advocate for my son and i advocate for wounded veterans across the country our group that i work with we're trying to make a change in that direction so we made it our mission that we're going to tell everybody we can and have the website have as much information that we can beat gotta get the word out to our soldiers don't take these drugs don't take these drugs it's the beginning of the end immediate action is needed not just in the united states but around the world more british soldiers and veterans committed suicide in two thousand and twelve than were killed in battle same thing for the relatively small australian military over the past decade twenty percent of the deaths of german troops abroad are from suicide and the russian military has a suicide rate sixty five percent higher than the rest of the entire country so what is the solution  is psychiatry and mental health don't leave them in charge of mental health will not improve until psychiatry star no longer in charge of i truly believe that they are destroying our military the battlefield is safer psychiatry is currently an international three hundred thirty billion dollar a year industry did promise to help it delivers paid damage and death the hidden enemy has now been revealed what happens next is up to all of us you've got the facts fight back