Revealed: hard drug culture among soldiers
Revealed: hard drug culture among soldiers
BRIAN BRADYWESTMINSTER EDITOR
TEN British soldiers a week are caught taking Class A drugs, including heroin and crack cocaine, shocking new figures obtained by Scotland on Sunday reveal.
The number of busts for hard drugs within the British army has doubled in two years and now easily exceeds positive tests for cannabis.
Almost 1,000 soldiers were caught by random drug tests last year, in what some experts claim is a clear sign of troops suffering plummeting morale and mounting pressure.
Figures released by the Ministry of Defence show that 520 soldiers tested positive for Class A drugs in 2005, massively up on the 350 recorded the previous year and double the 260 caught in 2003.
Over the same two-year period, the number of soldiers testing positive for Class C drugs, such as cannabis, has risen from 340 to 460.
The rising toll of positive drug tests - 980 in 2005 - is pushing the army's policy of compulsory expulsion to the limit. The campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan are already causing considerable strain on British forces, and the MoD cannot afford to dismiss so many soldiers for taking illegal drugs.
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BRIAN BRADYWESTMINSTER EDITOR
TEN British soldiers a week are caught taking Class A drugs, including heroin and crack cocaine, shocking new figures obtained by Scotland on Sunday reveal.
The number of busts for hard drugs within the British army has doubled in two years and now easily exceeds positive tests for cannabis.
Almost 1,000 soldiers were caught by random drug tests last year, in what some experts claim is a clear sign of troops suffering plummeting morale and mounting pressure.
Figures released by the Ministry of Defence show that 520 soldiers tested positive for Class A drugs in 2005, massively up on the 350 recorded the previous year and double the 260 caught in 2003.
Over the same two-year period, the number of soldiers testing positive for Class C drugs, such as cannabis, has risen from 340 to 460.
The rising toll of positive drug tests - 980 in 2005 - is pushing the army's policy of compulsory expulsion to the limit. The campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan are already causing considerable strain on British forces, and the MoD cannot afford to dismiss so many soldiers for taking illegal drugs.
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