| Out of all Vietnam Vets that used drugs (3% or 270,000), 90 to
95 percent of all GI users sniffed ("snorted") the drug or inserted
a little in a cigarette and smoked it. Only 13,500 are assumed to
have injected illicit drugs In Vietnam, heroin use increased
significantly in 1970, and by 1971 an estimated 10-15% of servicemen
had used heroin. Interestingly, 11% of these users had used heroin
prior to coming to Vietnam. Another overlooked factor in Vietnam
heroin use was that it was primarily smoked. In a 1971 study of
heroin addiction among servicemen in Vietnam, 90-95% of addicts
smoked heroin and only 5-10% injected 5
http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/veterans/pdfs/volumeiv/
psychologicalandneuropsychologicalevaluation1_5.pdf
The
Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs by Edward M.
Brecher and the Editors of Consumer Reports Magazine, 1972 some
90 to 95 percent of all GI users sniffed ("snorted") the drug or
inserted a little in a cigarette and smoked it.
Recreational Drug Information Website
relatively few were either dysfunctional or addicted
users after their return to the United States (58)
Hepatitis C in Vietnam Era Veterans Bradford
Waters, M.D. Staff Hepatologist, Memphis VA Medical Center,
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis
90-95% of addicts smoked heroin and only 5-10% of that
group injected
1988
Health status of Vietnam veterans. II. Physical health. The Centers
for Disease Control Vietnam Experience Study. JAMA
1988;259(18):2708-2714.
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=371899 A
study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the
health status of Vietnam veterans found 3% had used “hard drugs,”
including amphetamines, barbiturates, cocaine, heroin, psychedelics,
phencyclidine and methaqualone. (See FY 1987)
•The Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs by Edward M.
Brecher and the Editors of Consumer Reports Magazine, 1972 some 90
to 95 percent of all GI users sniffed ("snorted") the drug or
inserted a little in a cigarette and smoked it.
•Recreational Drug Information Website relatively few were either
dysfunctional or addicted users after their return to the United
States (58)
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