Hard Drugs In The Military Summary

The Article I choose is Hard Drugs in the Military by Harold E. Hughes. This briefly explains the copious amount of drug use in the Military, specifically focusing on the Vietnam war. In todays society drug usage is heavily linked to depression and loneliness. Similarly two hundred thousand troops in the Vietnam War where not in combat units meaning that they had to much time on there hands. The troops began to experiment with heroin found in southeast Asia. As said by Harold E. Hughes “narcotics are as readily available as chewing gum and cigarettes in this country.” Meaning that troops had no trouble at all finding low cost drugs. But the reason as to why they resorted to drugs remained a mystery to civilians but made sense to the troops.