Who prescribes non-medical use drugs for the military?

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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Who prescribes non-medical use drugs for the military?

Posted: 8/16/2007 7:46:45 PM EDT

Long mission pilots are given amphetamines, who prescribes them and how does this fit with drug laws? Is it "illegal?"

Posted: 8/16/2007 7:47:30 PM EDT

[#1]

Prescribed and monitored by the flight surgeon.

Posted: 8/16/2007 7:49:28 PM EDT

[#2]

What do you mean "non medical" ?

Sounds medical to me.

Of course it's legal.

Posted: 8/16/2007 7:50:35 PM EDT

[#3]

I think he means stuff given to you thats not for an ailment.

Posted: 8/16/2007 7:53:55 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
I think he means stuff given to you thats not for an ailment.

Think of it as preventative medicine. Falling asleep at the wheel of a jet can lead to a whole host of medical complications.

Posted: 8/16/2007 7:54:13 PM EDT

[#5]

If he's talking about "go pills," the flight docs control all of that, and they have guidelines for prescribing them.

Amphetamines are also sometimes used in civilian medicine, just not very often.

Posted: 8/16/2007 7:54:36 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
What do you mean "non medical" ?

Sounds medical to me.

Of course it's legal.

Keeping you awake to fly an airplane is not a medical use or else it would be OK to prescribe amphetamines for anyone to do anything if they needed to do it for more than eight hours.

Posted: 8/16/2007 8:30:41 PM EDT

[#7]

yes it's legal, the militarys doing it. the us military would never do anything illegal.

Posted: 8/17/2007 12:17:06 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
edited to add: Plus, they're the government and can do whatever they want

They don't have to play by our rules.

Posted: 8/17/2007 12:34:06 AM EDT

[#9]

Well if its free meth im off to the recruiters office.

Posted: 8/17/2007 12:54:54 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Well if its free meth im off to the recruiters office.

No, they got this new shit now that pretty much just keeps you awake for 3 days.

Sorry.

Posted: 8/17/2007 3:27:55 AM EDT

[#11]

And there's the codiene-laced tylenol the infantry guys are so fond of.

Kharn

Posted: 8/17/2007 5:19:57 AM EDT

[#12]

Urban .mil legend about atropine injectors was that there was Valium in the mix.

Posted: 8/17/2007 5:28:58 AM EDT

[#13]

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Urban .mil legend about atropine injectors was that there was Valium in the mix.

The 3rd autoinjector (CANA) in the antidote kit is diazepam (Valium), used as an anti-convulsant after nerve agent exposure. The first two are atropine and 2-PAM-Cl.

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Kharn

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