Quote Originally Posted by MJZiggy
I think that at least part of that phenomenon can be accounted for by soldiers who play around with drugs while overseas or when they come back can't deal with life and begin to self-medicate leading to alcohol and other addictions. They need to be cared for better, not just physically, but emotionally as well. And if you're wounded in military service badly enough to be disabled, it should be the government's responsibility to take care of you to the tune of the median income from the town you were living in when you enlisted.
By the end of Vietnam, 1/4 of returning soldiers were heroin addicts.