USCENTCOM POLICY ON US FORCES US OF DIAZEPAM

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Subject: USCENTCOM POLICY ON US FORCES US OF DIAZEPAM                    

Unit: 101ST ID    

Parent  Organization: XVIII CORPS 

Box ID: BX001602

Folder Seq #:        348

Document Number:         56








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    to DIAZEPAM* SO(N TO BE FIELDED AS CANA TEONVULSANT ANTIDOTE FOR
    NERVE AGENT)* IS CRITICAL IN PREVENTING OR REDUCING CONVULSIONS AND
    CLSULTANT BRAIN DAMAGE IN NERVE AGENT CAUSUALTIES*       HNWEVER# THERE IS
    ,JUSTIFIABLE CONCERN THAT DIAZEPAt4 (ALSO KNOWN AS VALIUM) HAS THE
    POTEPffIAL FOR ABUSE*
    2*   OIAZEPA14 MUST BE ISSUED TO THE INGIVIDUAto AND READILY AVAILABLE
    WHEN NLEDED OR IT WILL BE OF LITILF USE IN PREVENTING PEPMANEMT BRAIN
    DAMAGE. THE BENEFITS OF INDIVIDUAL ISSUE FAR OUTWEIGH THE RISKSO
    TtiL SLOE EFFECTS FROM ADMINISTERING CANA WITHOUT BEING EXPOSED TO
    PLF?VE AGENT APE MINIMAL (IMPAIRED vrstiat TRACKING A910
    UECISION 14AKING ABILITY FOR TWO TO FIVE HOURS). THERE IS Mn RISK OF

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    CASUALTY BEFORE BEING ISSUED THE CANA*
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    BERVE AGENT CASUALTY THAT WILL INCORPORATE CANA INTO THE PROCEDURES
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    NERVE AGENT SO THAT HE CAN NO LONGER HELP HIMSELFE HE REOUIRES BUDDY
    AID*  SEVERE NERVE AGENT CASUALTIES WHO CADNAT INJECT
    THEMSELVES ARE GIVEN THEIR THREE ANTIDOTE SETS (ATROPINE AND 2 PAM
    OILOPIDE) IN RAPID SUCCESSION BY A BUDDY* WHEN A CASUALTY"S 7HIP0
    SET IS ADMINISTERED BY HIS SWDYP THE BUDDY WILL THEN AD14INISTER THE
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Box ID = BX001602
Unit = 101ST ID
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Subject = USCENTCOM POLICY ON US FORCES US OF DIAZEPAM
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Non-Health Related Document = 01-JAN-1980
Declassified = 05-JUL-1996