07/07/2015
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"Can you envision, any of you from the VA, that it would be appropriate to prescribe an opiate to somebody who, in their medical records, has an opiate addiction?"
"I strongly believe that this Committee needs to hold aggressive oversight hearings into these issues that the department continues to struggle with."
"What do you see as the biggest impediment for VA making this transition?"
"My observation would be opiates are prescribed a lot of times because that is what the patient came in and asked for."