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A consensus committee will develop a protocol (study design), to evaluate the relationship between concomitant opioid and benzodiazepine medication practices at the Department of Veterans Affairs, for treating mental health and combat-related trauma, which potentially led to veteran’s deaths and suicides.
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Consensus
·2019
Opioid prescriptions for acute and chronic pain increased dramatically from the late 1990s into the current decade in both the civilian and the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense treatment environments. Similarly, prescriptions for benzodiazepines also increased significantly f...
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Description
An ad hoc committee, under the auspices of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, will develop a protocol (study design), to evaluate the relationship between concomitant opioid and benzodiazepine medication practices at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), for treating mental health and combat-related trauma, which potentially led to veteran’s deaths and suicides. The VA has not requested specific recommendations.
Contributors
Sponsors
Department of Veterans Affairs
Staff
Carolyn Fulco
Lead
Blake Reichmuth
Major units and sub-units
Health and Medicine Division
Lead
Board on Health Care Services
Lead