Deadly cocktails consumed by Troops

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After Troops return home from perhaps Iraq, they have seen an increase in the mixing of drugs. As the article reads, a yound man died 5 months after his return and his cause of death was determined as a mix of alcohol and persription drugs.
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  1. exposure therapy
    a form of behavior therapy in which a survivor confronts feelings or phobias or anxieties about a traumatic event and relives it in the therapy situation
    Psychotherapy that involves repeated real, visualized, or simulated exposure to or confrontation with a feared situation or object or a traumatic event or memory in order to achieve habituation and that is used especially in the treatment of post-trauma
  2. survivor guilt
    a deep feeling of guilt often experienced by those who have survived some catastrophe that took the lives of many others; derives in part from a feeling that they did not do enough to save the others who perished and in part from feelings of being unworthy relative to those who died
    Feelings of guilt for having survived a catastrophe in which others died.
  3. toxicologist
    one who studies the nature and effects of poisons and their treatment
    The science dealing with the effects, antidotes, detection, etc., of poisons.
  4. understate
    represent as less significant or important
    To state (something) in restrained terms, often to obtain an ironic effect.
  5. Endicott
    born in England
    John Endicott
  6. kern
    the part of a metal typeface that projects beyond its body
    To remove a portion of space between (adjacent letters) in preparation for printing.
  7. antidepressant
    a drug used to treat feelings of being extremely unhappy
    of or pertaining to a substance that is used in the treatment of mood disorders, as characterized by various manic or depressive affects.
  8. gunnery
    guns collectively
    The art and science of constructing and operating guns, especially large guns.
  9. flashback
    a transition in a story to an earlier event or scene
    Recurrent and abnormally vivid recollection of a traumatic experience, as a battle, sometimes accompanied by hallucinations.
  10. narcotic
    a drug that produces numbness or stupor
    any of a class of substances that blunt the senses, as opium, morphine, belladonna, and alcohol, that in large quantities produce euphoria, stupor, or coma, that when used constantly can cause habituation or addiction, and that are used in medicine to relieve pain, cause sedation, and induce sleep.
  11. psychiatrist
    a specialist in the treatment of mental disorders
    a physician who practices psychiatry which is the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
  12. coroner
    an official who investigates death not due to natural causes
    An officer, as of a county or municipality, whose chief function is to investigate by inquest, as before a jury, any death not clearly resulting from natural causes.
  13. complexity
    the quality of being intricate and compounded
    The state or quality of being complex; intricacy: the complexity of urban life.
  14. reliance
    the state of depending on something
    confidence, trust, faith, assurance.
  15. corporal
    affecting the body as opposed to the mind or spirit
    of the human body; bodily; physical: corporal suffering.
  16. potent
    having or wielding force or authority
    producing powerful physical or chemical effects: a potent drug.
  17. plague
    any large-scale calamity
    An infectious, epidemic disease caused by a bacterium, Yersinia pestis, characterized by fever, chills, and prostration, transmitted to humans from rats by means of the bites of fleas.
  18. disorder
    a condition in which things are not in their expected places
    A disturbance in physical or mental health or functions; malady or dysfunction
  19. anxiety
    a vague unpleasant emotion in anticipation of a misfortune
    Distress or uneasiness of mind caused by fear of danger or misfortune.
  20. combat
    the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
    To fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
Created on 二月 13, 2011 (updated 二月 13, 2011)

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