10/27/2013
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"At least you will have my commitment to pursue it and I hope it will be a bipartisan initiative because this kind of coordination of information is really essential to protecting veterans."
"Over-prescription and overdose of opioids is an epidemic and a scourge in this country."
"Even under this new system, will the prescribing providers in the VA system be compelled to provide information to the State prescription monitoring programs, that is the State registries?"
"As a practicing physician, I can assure you, nothing could be further from the truth."