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Combat troops at higher risk for opioid, heroin addiction, study says
The National Bureau of Economic Research has released a study finding that combat exposure increases the risk of opioid, heroin addiction.
By Patricia Kime
VP Pence lauds Coast Guard crew for massive cocaine haul
The Coast Guard cutter Murno returned this week from a three-month drug interdiction deployment in the Eastern Pacific.
SIGAR: Drug lab bombing was a dead end, and most metrics for success or failure in Afghanistan are ‘classified or nonexistent'
The drug lab bombing campaign in Afghanistan that was championed as a game-changer didn’t have the intended effect of hitting the Taliban’s purse and was probably a waste of resources.
By Kyle Rempfer
Meth-fueled airman believing he was ‘in a video game’ leads cops on high-speed chase
The charge list levied against the 21-year-old airman is quite extensive.
By Jon Simkins
How the US dropped more munitions in Afghanistan this year than it has since the height of the war
U.S. Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A) has dropped more munitions in the first three months of this year than during the same time period in 2011 — a time widely considered the height of the war in Afghanistan.
By Kyle Rempfer