List of psychoactive drugs used by militaries

Militaries worldwide have used or are using various psychoactive drugs to improve performance of soldiers by suppressing hunger, increasing the ability to sustain effort without food, increasing and lengthening wakefulness and concentration, suppressing fear, reducing empathy, and improving reflexes and memory-recall, amongst other things.

[1][2] For drugs that recently were or currently are being used by militaries.Administration tends to include strict medical supervision and prior briefing of the medical risks.

[citation needed] Caffeine, diet pills, painkillers, nicotine, and alcohol are not included on the list.

Non-administrated, illegally used drugs are also not included.

Two hip flasks , located in the left-center, are featured in the military equipment used as emergency sustenance by the Luftwaffe , which was the air force of Nazi Germany during World War II.