Fentanyl has taken a record toll on the Army. Families demand answers.

Katherine Kuzminski, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said that while a civilian organization might view drug use from a more compassionate lens, it is more difficult for the military services to acknowledge because it is a break in the rigorous standards they must maintain for uniformity and security reasons.

“It comes down to a readiness issue,” Kuzminski said. “If someone is using illicit drugs in the military, that affects their performance, if they die of an overdose or even if there’s a traumatic event that they survive, the impact on the unit is pretty intense.”

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