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CDC Reports Drug Overdose Deaths Tripled From 2011 To 2016; Fentanyl Now Ranked Number One For Drug Overdose Deaths In U.S.

December 13, 2018

The CDC’s National Vital Statistics Report issued on December 12, 2018 entitled Drugs Most Frequently Involved in Drug Overdose Deaths: United States, 2011–2016 reported: “From 1999 through 2016, the age-adjusted rate of drug overdose deaths in the United States more than tripled from [...]

VA Settles Overdose Medical Malpractice Death Claim For $2.3M

December 5, 2017

A federal judge has approved the $2.3 million medical malpractice wrongful death settlement involving the Tomah VA Medical Center in Tomah, Wisconsin. The victim, a Marine Corps veteran, died on August 30, 2014 after he was administered sixteen different opiates in addition to other sedating medicat[...]

Wisconsin VA Medical Center Sued For Veteran’s Death

September 3, 2016

The family of a Marine veteran filed a medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against the U.S. in federal court on August 29, 2016, alleging that the Tomah, Wisconsin VA Medical Center’s treatment of the 35-year-old veteran of the Marine Corps was negligent, that the veteran’s mental[...]

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CDC Reports Drug Overdose Deaths Tripled From 2011 To 2016; Fentanyl Now Ranked Number One For Drug Overdose Deaths In U.S.

VA Settles Overdose Medical Malpractice Death Claim For $2.3M

Wisconsin VA Medical Center Sued For Veteran’s Death

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