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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Apr 27, 2016
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Medication Prescribing Improvement Act of 2016
This bill directs the Department of Defense to: (1) review the prescribing practices at military treatment facilities of pharmaceutical agents for post-traumatic stress treatment, (2) implement a process or processes to monitor the prescribing practices at military treatment facilities of pharmaceutical agents that are discouraged from use under the VA/DOD Clinical Practice Guideline for Management of Post-Traumatic Stress, and (3) implement a plan to address deviations from such guideline.
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Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD] · R–SD
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
Introduced in Senate
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