Thefts at the VA Leave Amputee Without Morphine

I am a military veteran. My mother jumps on me all the time because I don’t use my veterans benefits, and she can’t understand my decision to stay away from the VA.

Incidents like the one in this article that keep me away from the organization.

The Veterans Administration has found itself in another scandal where it’s employees were caught stealing medication and opioids used for treating wounded soldiers. But it’s worse: so much was stolen, there wasn’t enough pain medication for seriously injured veterans who desperately needed treatment.

How can such a thing happen?

From Daily Caller:

A veteran at a pain management clinic run by the VA was denied the morphine he needed to treat an amputated leg because the clinics supplies were depleted. The whistleblower who reported the clinic, Dr. Dale Klein, alleges he faced retaliation after voicing concerns to superiors about the missing medication, reports NBC News.

Investigators say the sharp increase in theft can partially be attributed to the national opioid epidemic. VA employees with addictions to opioids may steal the pills for personal use, while others are using their access to steal pills in bulk for distribution on the street.

A group of employees at the VA hospital in Little Rock, Ark., were arrested for conspiring to steal large quantities of several prescription drugs. One of the employees accessed the web portal of a medical supplier, using it to order a shipment of 4,000 oxycodone pills and 3,300 hydrocodone pills with a street value of $160,000.

Watch the report here:

The VA has lost its way, and hopefully, President Trump can fix it. Otherwise, it needs to be closed down.

Daily Caller also reports that in Baltimore, a VA employee who had Hepatitis C used syringes to inject himself with painkillers, and then used the same needles on VA patients, infecting them with that disease! It’s unconscionable, and it’s unacceptable.

Federal investigators say they’re on the case of this rising problem, but what are they doing about it? The hammer needs to be brought down on these criminals, and they need to face hard time. This is not only dangerous, this is deadly. This is not a time for having a conversation about solutions; this is the time to find these criminals and do away with them.

I do not play when it comes to military veterans and neither should law enforcement. Neither should President Trump or Congress.

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