Is this why I get treated like a criminal if I’m looking for some pain pills after having twisted my ankle and it swells like a football.
“Data obtained by CIR shows the number of opiate prescriptions at the Tomah VA more than quintupled from 2004”, What data? what stats, how much has their patient population increased. what are the nature of the injuries for the scripts. Jesus lord a little info would be nice b4 someone comes out with this info... to further the VA killing our own meme.
In Florida you can walk into your doctor’s office with both arms recently amputated and still spurting blood, and the response will be sorry, nothing can be done.
There are signs posted on the partition that if you are here trying to obtain opitates, benzos and such you will not get them.
However, if you go to the emergency room and are admitted with any sort of serious condition, they will give you medicines along those lines without hesitation.
It just seems like doctors are not willing to write out patient prescriptions at all here.