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tions of professional military education to raise
the awareness of the effects of drugged combatants
in ongoing conflicts.
• Develop focused research on the growing use of
methamphetamines by combatants.
• Engage NGOs that focus on the issue of child
soldiering to gauge the level of drug use in
particular conflicts.
• Include detoxification and rehabilitation programs
as part of demobilization efforts in particular
conflicts.
• Develop ways to contact diaspora communities
which may possess expertise in reestablishing
informal social controls on drug use in a given
conflict.
For coping with potential increases in substance
abuse in the armed services:
• Increase funding for mental health training,
expertise, and institutions to cope with potential
increases in substance abuse disorders by
veterans involved in protracted conflicts.
• Ensure that all military installations offer inpatient
care services for the treatment of drug
abuse by veterans returning from Afghanistan
and Iraq or ensure that care can be given at
nearby medical facilities in the community.
• Decrease the number of moral waivers for drug
and alcohol abuse given to new recruits.
The presence of drugged fighters is not unknown
in the history of warfare. Yet widespread drug use
on the battlefield coincides with a perceptible change
in the nature and type of wars that are occurring—
protracted conflicts largely fought by nonprofessional
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