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Curious Connections: Warfare and drug use (submitted 02.03)

Key Words: Drug use, warfare, connections, patterns

Abstract

Modern warfare appears to have a ?class action? effect on populations, resulting in large groups of alienated, often deeply scarred, people who turn to drugs for self-medication or, more rarely, recovery. At the same time, use of chemical and botanical products results in large numbers of people who may feel more ready to go to war, or at the least, to assign others to go to war. After all, life becomes cheaper. The Vietnam era was connected to the drug scene in many ways, some of which are becoming apparent only now, many years later.

Author information

Robert J. Gregory worked as a researcher in a community based mental health centre, adjacent to a large military post from 1967 through 1969, later becoming director of a substance abuse program in a state capitol city, all in the Southeast United States. He has served as a researcher for NIDA, and has worked as an anthropologist, psychologist, and university lecturer, most recently in New Zealand.

Robert J. Gregory, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
School of Psychology
Massey University
Palmerston North
NEW ZEALAND

E-Mail: R.J.Gregory@massey.ac.nz

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