When I first got here as a Senator, I started looking at the highest unemployment categories we have and it is our veterans.
Especially, let me tell you, if you go down into the age groups, our highest unemployed age group is veterans 18 to 24.
Do you not think we should get advice from those who specialize in----
VA patient overdose on prescription medication is double the national average, from what our statistics have shown.
if I am just deploying out, I am 19, 20, 21, 22, and I have chronic pain or whatever other ailments I may have, would yo...
I have seen the tragedy first hand in West Virginia. Sadly, we have the highest mortality rate in the country.
I have worked to reschedule Hydrocodone, combination drugs like Vicodin, Lortab, trying to get them from three to two.
I have heard some alarming stories from my constituents, and often they are prescribed one drug after another.
I am just looking for answers to serious problems and we want to work together to try to cure these problems.
I mean, common sense, remove and replace.
Last year the VA found that more than half a million VA patients are abusing opioids.