Tammy has also introduced additional bipartisan VA prescribing reforms. Their bipartisan Veterans Overmedication Prevention Act confronts the overmedication of veterans and would help prevent suicide deaths.
Continue working to implement bipartisan reforms to prevent overmedication of veterans and reduce suicide deaths, such as the Veterans Overmedication Prevention Act.
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Evidence
Baldwin led colleagues in demanding the Department of Veterans Affairs strengthen compliance with Jason’s Law and improve opioid prescribing practices for veterans after reports found lagging compliance.
Baldwin joined Sen. John McCain to introduce the Veterans Overmedication Prevention Act, which would direct VA to study veteran suicides and drug overdoses and assess prescription-related risks.
Assessments
Baldwin clearly made serious bipartisan efforts toward the promised reforms, including helping introduce the Veterans Overmedication Prevention Act in 2017 and later pressing the VA to comply with Jason's Law and improve opioid prescribing practices. The evidence, however, shows continued advocacy and oversight rather than enactment of the specific Act or completed implementation of the promised reforms reducing overmedication and suicide deaths. Because the record supplied does not establish that the reforms were fully implemented or achieved, the outcome remains unresolved rather than delivered.