Thursday, October 01, 2009

A Marine Dies Needlessly

Autopsy report released in Round Rock Marine's death

Chad Oligschlaeger is found to have died from multiple drug toxicity.

The U.S. Marine Corps has released the autopsy report for Cpl. Chad Oligschlaeger of Round Rock, who was found dead in his room at the Twentynine Palms Marine base in California on May 20, 2008.

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The report shows that methamphetamine and the antidepressants sertraline and benzodiazepine were found in Oligschlaeger's system. Propranolol, a hypertension drug used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, and Quetiapine, an antipsychotic medication, were also found.

"There were no surprises there," Eric Oligschlaeger, Chad Oligschlaeger's father, said of the autopsy results. "The prescription drugs killed him."

Chad Oligschlaeger had returned from Iraq in early 2006, unsettled by flashbacks and nightmares.


How many others are OD'ing on the drugs the military are giving the soldiers who develop PTSD or even from their physical injuries of War! According to this short report they don't think it was a suicide.

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