Whiskey, tobacco, and pain pills: The VA can be an opioid-free health system

There is simply a clip for everything. Now is the clip for the Department of Veterans Affairs to spell opioid-free. When I archetypal began practicing medicine astatine the VA, it was communal to “prescribe” alcoholic beverages to veterans. Many VA hospitals adjacent listed whiskey, wine, and brew connected their formularies to marque patients “more comfortable.” Although…