The Briefing Room

General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on March 13, 2017, 09:37:59 am

Title: Drug screening to enter military just got tougher. Many pills and tablets on black background.
Post by: rangerrebew on March 13, 2017, 09:37:59 am

 Drug screening to enter military just got tougher
Many pills and tablets on black background.
File image of a variety of pills. (JK1991 / Getty Images / iStockphoto)
Jeanette SteeleJeanette SteeleContact Reporter

If you use prescription painkillers or designer drugs, it’s about to get much tougher for you to join the military.

The Pentagon plans to quickly expand the number of drugs in its test panel for recruit hopefuls, a nod to the prescription-painkiller epidemic and recent popularity of synthetic pot.

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/military/the-intel/sd-me-military-drugs-20170309-story.html
What’s being added to the list: heroin, codeine, morphine, hydrocodone, oxycodone, hydromorphone, oxymorphone and a number of synthetic cannabis-like drugs and benzodiazepine sedatives.