Narcotics used by Special Forces?

**Kampfwagen** · 05-09-2006, 08:34 AM

Hey there. I dont mean to cause any waves here, but I just had some questions regarding the use of things such as Methamphetamines and PCP by Special Forces units. I do remember hearing about suppoused WW2 usage of PCP and other stimulants by Waffen SS and the Wherwolves but all I have learned about it is very vague and subject to conjecture.

Anyway, most of what I know are rumors that organizations like the Navy SEALS and possibly some other forigien agencies (North Korea comes to mind) as a 'performance enhancer', to increase one's pain threshold and keep one going even after being shot repeatedly, or something like that.

So what I want to know is if it is true that Special Forces (of any nation) use Stimulants or other Narcotics such as PCP and Methamphetamines. The subject is an intresting and controversial one at that, so please try your best to keep it clean.

By the way, I apologize if I get any of the terminology wrong here. I have a feeling that Narcotics is too strong a word, but 'Drugs' seemed too vague and 'Stimmulants' too specific.

**Gollevainen** · 05-09-2006, 09:40 AM

At least finnish long range patrol units (special forces) used 'speed' during the WWII, and they recieved it from the SS...the same guys then as part of finnish skiing teams used the same stuff as doping on olympics...

**bd popeye** · 05-09-2006, 12:52 PM

Kampfwagen, I know that the US armed forces used Methamphetamines(speed) to keep soilders alert during stressful times. This practice ended in the '60's. This is how Elvis Presely got hooked on "Speed"...

Morphine was widley used WW 2 by the US forces medical corps. And during the US Civil war and Spanish American War the US issued cocaine for pain medication like it was candy. Servicemembers that developed an addiction to it were said to have "soildiers disease."

I at one time had a book about the Wafen SS and it accused them of expermiting on people with all sorts of drugs. No doubt they used speed for their own personal use..

**Finn McCool** · 05-09-2006, 06:20 PM

In Iraq and Afghanistan, american troops constantly find syringes, pills and other drug stuff in captured insurgent positions. A lot Taliban fighters use heroin. And when the Marines took Falluja, there were stories of crazed Iraqis charging them, firing a weapon. They would shoot the guys, but he wouldn't stop coming. So they would have to fire a bunch of rounds into before he fell down, dead. This happened quite a few times from what I understand. The same thing happened in Somalia. Drug crazed insurgents that won't die are one of the reasons that Vietnam era weapons, like the M-14 and the Colt 45 are becoming popular again in the US military. They have more power.

**FriedRiceNSpice** · 05-09-2006, 07:51 PM

Morphine was widley used WW 2 by the US forces medical corps. And during the US Civil war and Spanish American War the US issued cocaine for pain medication like it was candy. Servicemembers that developed an addiction to it were said to have "soildiers disease."

Isn't morhpine still widely used as a painkiller today? I am not sure, but I had thought they were standard medication among US hospitals.