V.A. Using Iraq Vets as Guinea Pigs in Drug Tests

Greg Mitchell
Editor & Publisher
June 17, 2008

NEW YORK As if the “soldier suicide” problem wasn’t bad enough already, word has just emerged from ABC News and The Washington Times that our government is testing drugs with severe side effects, including promoting suicidal behavior, on hundreds of vets.

In one case, the V.A. took three months to alert the veterans to the severe mental effects caused by one of the drugs, the controversial Chantix, used to halt smoking.

They are even using cash payments to attract patients into medical experiments “that often target distressed soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan,” the newspaper puts it today.

The Chantix warning did not come “until after one of the veterans taking the drug had suffered a psychotic episode that ended in a near lethal confrontation with police,” the Washington Times reports.

ABC aired an interview today with that man, James Elliott, an Army sharpshooter who suffers from PTSD after serving 15 months in Iraq.

“You’re a lab rat for $30 a month,” Elliott said.

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