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List of psychoactive drugs used by militaries information


Militaries worldwide have used or are using various psychoactive drugs to improve performance of soldiers by suppressing hunger, increasing the ability to sustain effort without food, increasing and lengthening wakefulness and concentration, suppressing fear, reducing empathy, and improving reflexes and memory-recall, amongst other things.[1][2]

  1. ^ Stoker, Liam (14 April 2013). "Creating Supermen: battlefield performance enhancing drugs". Army Technology. Verdict Media Limited. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
  2. ^ Kamienski, Lukasz (8 April 2016). "The Drugs That Built a Super Soldier". The Atlantic. Retrieved 22 June 2018.

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