http://www.mypanhandle.com/news/veteran-opioid-abuse-prevention-act-passes-the-house/1191734447
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Dr. Neal Dunn’s Veterans Opioid Abuse Prevention Act passed in the house.
The bill calls for increased transparency among VA prescribing of controlled substances. It directs the department of veterans affairs to connect health care providers to a national network of drug monitoring programs.
They will then track data to identify abuse patterns in patients. Dr. Dunn spoke in support of the bill on the house floor earlier today.
According to Dr. Dunn, “more than 140 individuals every day are dying every day from opioid abuse in the United States. And Opioids have resulted in the deaths of more Americans than the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam wars put together over the same period of time.”
Former VA Secretary Robert McDonald said that veterans are more likely to abuse Opioids than the average American. It is one of the leading causes of homelessness among veterans.
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When will our CPP/TIP be heard. They are the other side of this HYSTERIA. We are not ADDICTS and we don’t like the stereo type you are using. This OPIOID CRISIS HYSTERIA GENOCIDE is killing our Veterans. Their pain is so bad that they are taking thrir lives. And you the CDC,FDA,DEA and our GOVERNMENT are blaming the opioids for it. Wake the hell up people before more CPP/TIP die do to your GENOCIDE.