Oh Here's A Really Great Idea For The Troops -- Don't Sleep!!

[theHandpuppet]

Courtesy of the British Military....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6083840.stm

UK army tested 'stay awake' pills
By Brian Wheeler
Political reporter, BBC News

Special forces sometimes have to stay awake for 48 hours or more
A controversial drug which can keep people awake for days has been tested by the UK military, MPs have been told.

Modafinil pills - known on the drugs scene as "zombies" - are used to treat the rare sleeping disorder narcolepsy.

The Ministry of Defence has previously denied testing the drug on troops although it reportedly bought thousands of pills ahead of the Iraq war.

Defence contractor Qinetiq told the commons' science committee the drug had recently been tested for military use.... MORE

[goforit]

1. Yes, Iraq war was to get oil and to be a testing ground for pharmaceuticles

[theHandpuppet]

2. Yep...

Also from the article...

"Qinetiq scientist Dr Anna Casey told the Science and Technology Committee the MoD funded research into stimulant and performance-enhancing drugs and dietary supplements."

[Sugar Smack]

3. Brilliant! And feed it to the troops returning with PTSD.

This is how we'll WIN the war on terra.

PS-:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[Ian David]

4. Modafinil ( Provigil )

I've been taking Provigil for years.

My co-pay for generic drugs is $5/1 month supply.
For non-generic, my co-pay is $15/1 month supply.
For Provigil, my co-pay is $30/1 month supply.

Supposedly, this is because not only is the drug expensive to begin with, but it's become so popular for off-label and "recreational" use, that they had to raise to co-pay.

But Provigil has given me my life back.

Without it, I probably would never get off the couch.

Once, I had a cold, and I took Provigil and Sudafed together with a cup of coffee. And then I used some nose-spray decongestant. It didn't feel good.

Otherwise, it hasn't given me any problems, but it does make your pee smell funny.

I can't imagine what it would feel like to take so much Provigil that you feel alert and perky for 48 hours without sleep.

[babydollhead]

6. once

I took a 4 hour allergy pill, and it didn't work fast enough, so I took a 12 hour pill, then a once a day allergy pill. The walls were bending. I was sweating like mad. I called the poison control on myself. Then I had to lay in bed, my heart racing. My mother came in sat on my bed and said, "You should get out of bed, put some lipstick on, and at least pretend to care!" she didn't know that I was zoinked out, she thought I was just being dull looking and laying on my bed during the day. I was 21 and nobody understood my problems.

[Jed Dilligan]

5. Is that what Men at Work meant?

Travelling in a fried-up combi
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie

It took me years to find out that a combi is a VW bus. I always assumed the head full of zombie was just a metaphor for how one feels after a few days of hippie-type drugs.

Anyhow--I'd rather just take the good ol' All-American (never mind it was invented for this purpose by the Nazis) pharmaceutical SPEED we give our boys--these fancy newfangled pills, I don't trust....