Posted on May 24, 2018

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Lt Col Charlie Brown

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This is a problem in our community as well as the civilian community at large. Not sure what a bill targeted at veterans will do other than restricting access to pain medication.

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Col Joseph Lenertz

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Yes, not sure targeting patients is the most effective solution. With our ability to consolidate data across the US into databases, we could easily track the "outlier" data to doctors, hospitals, and pharmacies who overprescribe and oversupply the opioids. Target the outliers and charge them with the applicable crimes.

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SPC Douglas Bolton

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Lt Col Charlie Brown We need to target to pharmaceutical companies with this problem.

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Lt Col Charlie Brown

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Part of the problem is language. Go back to calling these drugs "narcotics" It's amazing how many people don't know that opiods are addictive narcotics.

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SPC Douglas Bolton

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Lt Col Charlie Brown - Good point.

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