Medication Errors
Military doctors may be overprescribing painkillers
A new report by the National Academy of Sciences shows that military doctors may be overprescribing pain pills. This lax prescribing leads to the issue of overmedication that seems to be plaguing service people with resulting addictions. Active personnel who are caught abusing prescription drugs may be given a dishonorable discharge, leading to loss of veterans’ benefits. Unable to pay for their medication, they may resort to criminal behavior to