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Award for magazine reporting for the McChrystal article, which
was titled "The Runaway General."His story was considered responsible for
ending McChrystal's career after it revealed the military's candid criticisms
of the Obama administration.Hastings was also an author of books about the
wars. "The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's
War in Afghanistan" was published late last year and details shocking exploits
of the military overseas.In 2010, with the publication of "I Lost My
Love in Baghdad," Hastings told the story of being a young war
correspondent whose girlfriend dies in Iraq.The Associated Press contributed
to this report
his family believed he had started using drugs
again in the month before his death.According to investigators, the crash
occurred a day after Hastings returned from New York, where his wife
was living at the time, and hours before a brother was due
to join another family member in urging Hastings to go to detox.
Family members said Hastings had been using the hallucinogenic DMT recently,
though the drug was not detected in a blood test after the
crash.The names of family members who spoke to investigators were redacted
in the report.The report said a family member had last seen Hastings
passed out at home about three hours before the crash. The person
said Hastings had been smoking marijuana the night before the crash.Investigators
said Hastings was found after the crash with a medicinal marijuana identity
card in his wallet, and that the drug apparently was used to
ease post-traumatic stress disorder after his assignments in Afghanistan
and Iraq.The report also noted that Hastings had hit a pole while
driving several years ago and was possibly misusing Ritalin at the time.
He was later institutionalized for rehabilitative care.A family member told
investigators Hastings didn't have a history of suicide attempts but believed
he was invincible and could jump off a balcony and be fine.At
the time of his death, Hastings was working as a contributing editor
for Rolling Stone and wrote about politics for Buzzfeed.He won a 2010
George Polk
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