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prescribe specifically more opiates to stress patients than other veterans. congress held a hearing. family members, veterans and doctors testified about the culture of prescribing drugs at the v.a. unfortunately, we have given the veterans the impression that for whatever problem they have, we have a pill to help it. one or two bills to depression, one for anxiety. one or two for sleep, one for ptsd. add a few more pills for hypertension, diabetes, asthma, then add one or two or three precipitations for narcotics, what happens if a vet adds some over the counter medications or if he drinks alcohol? suicide and accidental overdose among veterans and active service members is twice as high as the national average. leading some to question whether the drugs are treating mental illness and pain or making the problem worse. so how effective are these precipitation drugs at treating what ale also our veterans? producer is here monitoring our social media. we know about ....