The only thing I could really find is here: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/military/story/2012-04-21/afghanistan-soldier-drug-use/54450906/1 http://usatoda

The only thing I could really find is here: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/military/story/2012-04-21/afghanistan-soldier-drug-use/54450906/1 http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/military/story/2012-04-2... Long story short, the Army investigated 56 soldiers in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2011 for using / dealing. As for the bigger question, the military really is a subset of society. Veterans end up using the same things the rest of society does to escape their problems. Combine that with relatively easy access to pain meds and you get the same sad story we're dealing with everywhere else. Here's more info on that angle: https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/06/30/us-half-million-drug-dependent-veterans https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/06/30/us-half-million-drug-dep...