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Joe Manchin: “I believe that if VA, Medicaid, and Medicare...did not go to prescribing opiates first, but as a last resort.”

On the recordJune 23, 2015
I believe that if VA, Medicaid, and Medicare...did not go to prescribing opiates first, but as a last resort.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia

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Manchin advocates for alternative treatments over initial opiate prescriptions.

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