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US soldiers who fought in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder that manifests in various illnesses such as headaches, anxiety, sleeplessness, and chronic pain. Just as they heavily depended on their high-powered ammunition, so are they heavily dependent on prescription pills such as antidepressants, anti-anxiety [...]

Currently, there are approximately 38,000 United States soldiers in Afghanistan, with an upcoming addition of over 17,000 in line with US President Barack Obama’s new strategy. Salerno is one of the U.S. bases in Afghanistan, along with Bagram. These soldiers hardly know anything about the country to which most of them were deployed to after [...]