{"id":1633436,"date":"2022-09-06T06:18:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T10:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1633436"},"modified":"2022-09-06T06:19:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T10:19:12","slug":"overdoses-now-a-leading-cause-of-death-for-fort-bragg-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/overdoses-now-a-leading-cause-of-death-for-fort-bragg-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Overdoses Now a Leading Cause of Death for Fort Bragg Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foverdoses-now-a-leading-cause-of-death-for-fort-bragg-soldiers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1633436&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An alarming new expos\u00e9 from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-features\/inside-the-overdose-crisis-sweeping-fort-bragg-1396298\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Rolling Stone<\/a> highlights the fact that the U.S. military is not immune to the nation\u2019s ongoing opioid epidemic. <\/p>\n<p>Through casualty reports obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Rolling Stone found that a total of 109 soldiers assigned to Fort Bragg, active and reserve, lost their lives in 2020 and 2021. Only four of the deaths occurred in overseas combat operations.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Bragg, located in North Carolina south of Raleigh, is one of the largest military bases in the world and is the headquarters of several of the Army\u2019s commands.<\/p>\n<p>After suicide, accidental overdose is the leading cause of death at Fort Bragg. A total of 21 deaths in the two years ending December 2021 can likely to attributed to drug overdoses, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-features\/inside-the-overdose-crisis-sweeping-fort-bragg-1396298\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Rolling Stone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The expos\u00e9 highlights the story of Matthew Disney, who was a 20-year-old soldier stationed at Fort Bragg. Disney was found dead along with fellow radarman Joshua Diamond in the Fort Bragg barracks. Military investigators informed Disney\u2019s mother, Racheal Bowman, that he had ingested an imitation Percocet, a prescription painkiller. The cause of death was acute fentanyl intoxication.<\/p>\n<p>Rolling Stone found that at least 14, and as many as 30, Fort Bragg soldiers have died in this way since the start of 2020: \u201cquietly, in their barracks, in their bunks, in a parked car, or somewhere off-post, from no outwardly apparent cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll these deaths are happening in the same way, and no one is talking about it,\u201d Bowman told Rolling Stone. \u201cIt\u2019s all very secretive. It\u2019s all swept under the rug.\u201d She adds, \u201cThis is obviously a problem. How is it that nobody knows about it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rolling Stone also obtained the casualty reports for every U.S. soldier across the entire Army who died in 2021. The documents show that of 505 total deaths, 33 were confirmed overdoses. This number \u201cwould make overdose a leading cause of death among American soldiers,\u201d behind suicide, illness, and accidents, but well ahead of homicides and combat fatalities. Rolling Stone notes that there were also 27 cases in which death resulted from \u201cundetermined\u201d causes, at least several of which were likely overdoses.<\/p>\n<p>The opioid crisis has affected the military at all levels. Earlier this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/03\/12\/1086286083\/west-point-cadets-fentanyl-spring-break-overdose-florida\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">five cadets<\/a> at West Point \u2014 the institution tasked with training the next generation of Army leadership \u2014 were treated for overdosing on fentanyl while on spring break. All the cadets survived.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout America, 56,516 <a href=\"https:\/\/nida.nih.gov\/research-topics\/trends-statistics\/overdose-death-rates\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">people died<\/a> from overdosing on synthetic opioids like fentanyl in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An alarming new expos\u00e9 from Rolling Stone highlights the fact that the U.S. military is not immune to the nation\u2019s ongoing opioid epidemic. 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