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The VA could not overprescribe narcotics / opioids / psychiatric drugs to veterans

By Hicbd
Tue Jul 27 2021 9:02 am

"But Inspector General reports over the past year show VA facilities nationwide are still putting scores of veterans on opioids without first following their own safeguards...Yet the audits indicate that the VA is still falling short. Most of the reports, published in the second half of 2020 and the beginning of 2021, documented dramatic shortcomings in checking veterans for whether they were at risk to become addicted to opioids."

URL:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-va-is-pushing-vets-into-the-opioid-abyss
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/24/us/politics/ian-fishback-veteran-mental-health-crisis.html
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-va-hooked-veterans-on-opioids-then-failed-them-again-1483030270
https://www.newsweek.com/2017/10/20/va-fueled-opioid-crisis-killing-veterans-681552.html

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Categories:
Psychiatry U.S. Military Opioid Addiction / Epidemic Veterans Investigative Reporting U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Psychedelics / Plant-based Medicine

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