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Pentagon Investigates Pill-Popping PTSD Prevention: (WIRED)

June 10, 2009

As many as 300,000 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans may have suffered from PTSD or depression at some point, and the military has already spent millions on treatment for returning troops - everything from "samurai meditation" to at-home computerized counselors. Now the Pentagon's advanced research arm is hoping that a combination of neuroscience, psychology, and creative pill-popping can stop battlefield stress before it even starts. [click here to view] (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/06/pentagon-investigates-pill-popping-ptsd-prevention/)

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