MADISON - Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin has introduced a bill that would reduce the prescription of narcotics in Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals.
Baldwin said Tuesday that the measure could prevent possible deaths from narcotic over-prescribing practices like those reported at a VA medical center in Tomah.
Baldwin named the bill after 39-year-old Marine Jason Simcakoski who died of mixed-drug toxicity in the hospital's in-patient intensive care unit in August. Multiple probes into the facility are ongoing.
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