"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 08:55:46 -0800, "C J Campbell"
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Has it resulted in friendly-fire accidents? Yes, there have been
friendly-fire accidents. Yes, some of those pilots have been on 'go'
pills.
But I have never seen an incident where it was established that the use
of
'go' pills was the primary cause or even a significant factor in the
accident. It can even be argued the heightened alertness of the pilots
actually prevents these accidents from happening more often.

From the original article:

Also known as "speed," and, in the military, as "go pills,"
amphetamines are considered essential by some in the military to
maintaining a top-notch fighting force. Their use was not publicly
well-known until the drugs were implicated in a friendly-fire
incident in Afghanistan in 2002, in which an American F-16 pilot
mistakenly dropped a laser-guided bomb on Canadian soldiers,
killing four of them.

So while not yet an established cause of frendly-fire incidents, "go
pills" (amphetamines) seem to have been implicated as causal.

The trouble is that even AVweb has not said how these drugs were implicated.
In the incident they cite, the pilots were using 'go' pills. Nothing in the
investigation has shown any causal relationship with the accident. You might
as well say that the pilots' helmets or the fillings of their teeth were
implicated.