PTSD plagues roughly 15% of those who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Small clinical trials and observational studies have shown signs that opiates and other medications can disrupt the way the brain encodes traumatic memories, thus preventing the incidents from being recorded with too much intensity. The new findings are a strong endorsement of that theory: troops who received morphine within a few hours of their injuries were about 50% less likely to develop PTSD than those who didn’t.
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