9.3%

— The number of troops discharged from active duty, or demobilized from reserve forces, last year who were on psychiatric or pain medications when mustered out. In 2011, a new Government Accountability Office report says, 35,068 of the 378,277 discharged were taking such meds. That’s a 26% jump from the 7.4% rate experienced in 2009.
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