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10th November 2010, 03:01 AM
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Reps: 59,252,134,345,102,168 (power: 0) | | | Would you take drugs before combat if you were ordered to...
and you didn't know what they were but you were told they were addictive and illegal for normal people to have, but since you are in the military we are interested in researching how this drug affects combat troops. |
10th November 2010, 03:10 AM
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24th December 2010, 02:32 PM
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Reps: 186,767,426,457,072,224 (power: 186,767,426,457,092) | | | It depends. Amphetamines, for example, have been used by combatants in limited cases when mission requirements dictate abnormally long mission durations. In those cases, I fully support their use. What is the particular circumstance you are referring to?
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24th December 2010, 08:02 PM
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Reps: 9,520,986,903,775,104 (power: 0) | | Originally Posted by isshinwhat  It depends. Amphetamines, for example, have been used by combatants in limited cases when mission requirements dictate abnormally long mission durations. In those cases, I fully support their use. What is the particular circumstance you are referring to?
How about a situation where soldiers will be awake for an extended period of time so they are ordered to take a medicine called Provigil that is normally for narcolepsy but in this case it is used to stave off the side effects of sleep deprivation, which research show it does a good job of.
I've been told the Germans in WWII used amphetamines. They say Hitler was a tweaker which led to some of his asinine decisions later in the war. |
24th December 2010, 08:33 PM
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Reps: 186,767,426,457,072,224 (power: 186,767,426,457,092) | | | I've been part of a Modafinil study and found it to be effective. Given certain mission requirements, I think its use can be highly beneficial.
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Let us, therefore, forget for a while the technical discussions about the Church, its mission, its methods. Not that these discussions are wrong or unnecessary—but they can be useful and meaningful only within a fundamental context, and that context is the “great joy” from which everything else in Christianity developed and acquired its meaning."
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