Apply for and manage the VA benefits and services you’ve earned as a Veteran, Servicemember, or family member—like health care, disability, education, and more.| www.va.gov
From 2015 onward, Veteran men experienced lower age-adjusted overdose rates than non-Veteran men. In all years, overdose rates were higher among male Veterans with recent VHA use than those without recent use. While overall rates of Veteran overdose deaths declined from 2017 to 2019, rates involving …| PubMed
Patients were at greater risk of death from overdose or suicide after stopping opioid treatment, with an increase in the risk the longer patients had been treated before stopping. Descriptive data suggested that starting treatment with opioids was also a risk period. Strategies to mitigate the risk …| PubMed
VA reduced the number of Veterans with opioid prescriptions by 67% since 2012, from 874,897 Veterans in 2012 to 288,820 in 2023| VA News
