Pentagon to Shift Drug-War Resources to Terrorism
WASHINGTON -- Citing the need to redirect resources to the war on terrorism, the Pentagon has quietly decided to scale back its effort to combat international drug trafficking, a central element of the national "war on drugs" for 14 years.
Officials are still weighing how exactly to pare the $1-billion-a-year program, but they want to reduce deployment of special operations troops
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They made the volunteers describe their worst trauma on tape, and then played this back to them while presenting them with a drug or alcohol "cue" such as a crack pipe or a serving of alcohol.
They then asked each volunteer how badly he or she wanted a drink or a dose of drugs.
Writing in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, they said craving increased significantly when participants heard the tape and were then shown cues related to their substance of choice.
"From our research with trauma victims, we know that intrusive trauma memories are very upsetting to patients, and now we have shown that these trauma memory-induced negative emotions increase craving in substance
abusers with PTSD," Coffey said in a statement.
"These findings add support to our contention that we need to treat the two disorders at the same time."|||
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