Lawmakers Call for Investigation of Veterans Hospital Accused of Distributing Pain Medication ‘Like Candy’
January 14, 2015 – Members of the Wisconsin congressional delegation are jumping on an investigative report that suggests that doctors at a Wisconsin Veterans Affairs hospital prescribed pain medication to patients “like candy.”
Republicans Sen. Ron Johnson and Rep. Sean Duffy on Wednesday called for an investigation into a Veterans Affairs hospital in Tomah, Wis. A recent report by the Center for Investigative Reporting found that patients had nicknamed the medical facility “Candy Land” for its high number of pain medication prescriptions.
Johnson and Duffy asked the VA Office of the Inspector General in a letter to answer specific questions about the report and the results of an earlier VA investigation into the hospital.
“Reports questioning the prescribing practices at the VA Medical Center in Tomah are cause for alarm,” Johnson said in a Wednesday statement. “As chairman of the Senate committee overseeing the way government agencies operate, I am requesting the Inspector General’s Office get to the bottom of this matter.”
According to the CIR report, in the eight years after the hospital’s current chief of staff, David Houlihan, took office, opiate prescriptions more than quintupled, even as the number of patients at the Tomah VA went down.
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