How the VA Is Pushing Vets Into the Opioid Abyss

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Audits and interviews reveal failures to examine medical histories and perform tests before prescribing veterans opioids. The results are disastrous.

Published May 31 2021 1:22AM EDT

David Parker, whose 12-year military career included deployments as a Marine to Iraq and Afghanistan, was getting out of his car last July at the Veterans

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How the VA Is Pushing Vets Into the Opioid Abyss

Audits and interviews reveal failures to examine medical histories and perform tests before prescribing veterans opioids. The results are disastrous.

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Alexa Beyer