Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20170820:03:25:00
People and a lot of families are the use of painkillers. what is your sense of the level of prescription or overprescription of painkillers in the v.a.? >> well, there's no doubt throughout the country this is national crisis, a public health crisis. in the v.a. we actually noticed this and began to work on it in 2010, so we've seen about a 30% reduction in opioid use in the v.a --n jesse: good. >> and we've been working on this, and we'll continue to work on it to make sure that we not only effectively treat pain, but that we don't unintentionally get people addicted to these types of medicat...
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