Articles by Mark Brunswick and Brian Peterson
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Veterans: A Battle with Pain (Part I)
Mark Brunswick and Brian Peterson - Star Tribune,
11 Apr 2016
VA doctors freely handed out pain medications to veterans for years. Then they stopped. The results have sometimes turned tragic. Almost 60 percent of veterans list chronic pain as their most common medical problem. Initial solution: a powerful but potentially addictive class of drugs known as opioids.
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Mark Brunswick and Brian Peterson - Star Tribune,
11 Apr 2016
VA kicks vets off pain meds in favor of alternatives like yoga and acupuncture, but it’s not keeping up with the desperate demand. Few dispute that the VA had a painkiller problem. Prescriptions for narcotics such as oxycodone and methadone had tripled nationally in the 11 years before the VA realized it had created a crisis of drug dependency among veterans.
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