Accession Number:

AD1105825

Title:

Audit of Controls Over Opioid Prescriptions at Selected DoD Military Treatment Facilities

Descriptive Note:

[Technical Report, Inspector General Audit]

Corporate Author:

Department of Defense Inspector General

Personal Author(s):

Report Date:

2020-01-10

Pagination or Media Count:

66

Abstract:

The objective of this audit was to determine whether selected DoD military treatment facilities MTFs overprescribed opioids for DoD beneficiaries. DoD beneficiaries are active duty service members, retirees, and eligible family members who receive health care at MTFs, which the Defense Health Agency DHA and the Surgeons General of the Military Departments oversee. In this audit, we focused on specific examples of beneficiaries who received opioids from 2015 to 2017 at Madigan Army Medical Center MAMC in Joint Base LewisMcChord, Washington Naval Medical Center Portsmouth NMCP in Portsmouth, Virginia and Joint Base Elmendorf-RichardsonJBER Hospital in Anchorage, Alaska.

Descriptors:

• health services
• drug abuse
• medical personnel
• military medicine
• pain
• military personnel
• therapy
• health care
• pain management
• department of veterans affairs
• opioids
• department of defense
• pharmacies
• physicians
• united states
• controlled substances
• health
• military hospitals
• central nervous system depressants
• hospitals

Subject Categories:

• Medicine and Medical Research
• Pharmacology

Distribution Statement:

[A, Approved For Public Release]