Fen-phen works by increasing seratonin levels in brain. Seratonin is responsible for moods including a feeling of satiety, or being full. The “fen”, fenfluramine, alone causes severe mood swings and depression, which made it unpopular. By adding stimulant phentermine to counterbalance depressing effects, people did not feel depressed by drug-imposed chemical imbalance, they only felt less hungry. Unfortunately, excess seratonin was also found to be responsible for serious heart valve problems.

“There’s a huge difference between typical divorces that we see on a daily basis and military divorces that we’re seeing,” says Janet Fritts, a divorce attorney with Rosen Law Firm. “The majority of civilian couples we deal with have stopped communicating somewhere during marriage, but military couples have been communicating in more ways than ever before.”

Divorce experts say young military marriages, co-ed military units, financial decision-making, and bureaucracy of being a military officer’s spouse are just some of factors contributing to already established problems of spousal absence and combat stress among military families.

“Allocation of finances is a huge problem because so many military members have no control over their finances when they’re overseas and their at-home spouses are spending monthly checks way they see fit, sometimes on their new love relationships,” says Fritts. With deployments being more frequent and for longer periods, infidelity is another reason why Army divorce rates have sharply increased. “A lot of times it’s women who remain on base to take care of children and when her husband is gone for 6 months to a year, she may inevitably make new relationships with men on base,” says Fritts.