War veterans over-medicated to death at VA hospital

[TheHunTwo]

Do a study on the college-aged drunks and morons!

[songforamericans]

Vets. ....gave all....for those who give Vets. ....Nothing.

[tonymarie1984]

BAMC does the same shit

[odin422]

HA! Those parents DESERVE to loos their child.

SAD, but true.

[JohnnyQuince]

oh yeah they give that shit away.

[QymLym]

thats for the plug man

[69QuIzAcK69]

WELCOME TO SOCIALIZED MEDICINE!

[HVACSoldier]

@69QuIzAcK69 EXACTLY. But, what is MSNBC's anser to the problem? Probably that the government should do more of the same.

[MrEarth2000]

The Gov does not want you to live, they want us dead. This is why they send us to illegal drug wars all over the world and then you come home and they sedate you and have a shrink tell you what you are and what you need and then your a zombie to control and all is lost in your mind and you die. This is why no politicians in the Gov, let their kids join any service and if they do it's a Bush story, side line vet with no mission other than to look good and fool us like the Bush family tried to do.

[freakboy2891]

1999 West LA VA. Admitted use of several expierimental drugs administered on our boys without consent. Look into it.

[grbroussard]

The VA has never done me wrong. I'm all jacked up'd and still kick'in. My family and my crazy doc. has come to the front to keep me alive. THANK YOU!!!

[skwcw2001]

you ever notice that the only people that say the va centers are great are the trainee doc's the goverment, or people that are not patients, all doctors should have to go through the general procedures from admittance, to rating, to appointments to basic procedures at different va's that they are not apart of so they can feel and see how it really is.

[7514328]

You guys, I think I am in trouble. 23 years of service and diagnosed PTSD. Can't shake it. Constant numbness. Detached. Doctor wrote the narrative explaining how it relates to USMC. I am very sick. VA had me wait 4 hours. All the beds were full. Currently on meds. How do I get these people to help me?

[skwcw2001]

throw a damn chair at the doc's head i had to do that then all of a sudden i was taken seriously

[ninammam]

hmmm... just recently in florida 2,500 soldiers were infected through colonoscopys and other procedures with HIV, AIDS, Hepitis and other diseases Hmmmm something STINKS

[TheJomogogo]

No. There were 2500 people that went through a colonoscopy and they discovered the equipment wasn't properly sterilized per standard procedure, but there were NOT 2500 people infected with Aids/Hiv/etc. Keep your facts straight and stop spreading bullshit.

[ninammam]

As i said other procedures ALSO!! So you see i do have my facts straight you dont i never said from colonoscopys alone.

[zandj710]

oh my god

I knew they helped my dad riddled with cancer and being 85 already shutting down, but those precious young men, how stupid. methadone is for pain but very very serious. I am afraid of it, but you have to not take more then prescribed and not to drink or mix drugs, i think its the antidepressants that killed those young men. they are the shits those drugs

[DOCPTSD]

There is no comprehensive treatment program for PTSD in the Veterans Administration nor military facilities. I know this first hand as one that developed treatment programs during the Vietnam War, at the VA, and most recently at one of the Army bases. What the government will not tell you is covered in a book out there: "Aftermath, a war of memories." There has been too much abuse of power at the VA, cover up and retaliation against whistle blowers. Above all NO ACCOUNTABILITY in the system.

[alrozz]

Veterans should be aware that if you stay in a VA hospital or take any medicine from VA your playing with your life.

[marquisdejolie]

Ahyup

[meddetect10]

They overdosed my husband on Glipizide (for diabetes) and the dosage was entirely too strong for him. He got sick and I didn't sleep one whole night because I was keeping an eye on him for low sugar. I fed him about everything I had in the kitchen and he drank up all the juice and his sugar still kept dropping! He stopped it on his own.

[medicvet]

Sad thing is, for a lot of vets, that is all the care there is.

[DrDreLegalizeIt]

I was forcedly committed against my will several times and for several weeks at a time in our VA system. And I can honestly say that it has made me worse. They make you feel like a POW at home. Once your deamed "crazy" forget about trying to find a good paying job. Just work 2 or 3 like everybody else.

[meddetect10]

Why don't they grant you disability. Are you doing better now? I know how that can be-I'm not a veteran, but I know that people think I'm "not all there" because of PTSD. I just don't tell anyone about it.

[DrDreLegalizeIt]

Well, that is a big problem. You go and risk life, limb and eyesight for your country, then come home and are deemed incompetent to handle your own affairs. Then you are in the system. You can participate in drug experiments. Most of which give you side effects so you need more medicine and so on "Chris Rock", and it is true. Then the government is paying your dissabillity check, and making money off your illness, so they engourage you to stay ill.

[Reapz12]

Shup calical you dont know shit!.

[CaliCal68]

it cost less for va if they die

[RonPaulTheOnlyChoice]

Thank God you came back from Nam, sir. You have my UPMOST RESPECT!!!

RON PAUL for President in '08. He's the only choice. Check him out.

Thank you, sir.

[JigaBert35]

man,i tell ya,if i could god dammit,i would run a vet vacation home myself.i have no medical training,but if there is a will there is a way,i would find a way to make these guys have the best posible life that they deserve a whole lot more that alot of people.

[meddetect10]

I saw an ABC documentary Diane Sawyer did a few years back on VA hospitals and the conditions were deplorable. At one in Chicago one morning, I remember it was extremely cold (below 30) and one of the patients wandered off and came over into the shopping center wearing nothing but a hospital gown and no shoes! They don't keep an eye on them at all. Then here in Virginia, they found skeletal remains dressed in shards of a hospital gown behind one hospital-he'd been missing 2 or 3 years!

[kmwakak8]

This is not uncommon. Before they passed away, both my brother, father and uncle received unlimited amounts of narcotics, sedatives etc. From large quantities of medication my brother received from the VA he code blue twice; When my father died he had so many narcotics by his bed side it was pathetic.

You can not expect those who have served deplorable circumstances and have addictive or destructive tendencies to be responsible about how much they use.

I will NEVER get medical care at the VA.