World IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : Gulf War Pilots’ Drug Use Reported
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The Air Force has confirmed that some of its fighter pilots used amphetamines to stay awake during the Persian Gulf War, a newspaper reported. “They did take them. . . . They were used only under careful circumstances supervised by the flight surgeon,” said Patti Turner of the Air Force surgeon general’s office at Bolling Air Force Base at Washington. The pilots took dextroamphetamine during flights longer than eight hours, Turner said in a story published by a Tacoma, Wash., newspaper.
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