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

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-Richardson(JBER) Hospital in Anchorage, Alaska.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 10, 2020
Accession Number
AD1105825

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Department of Defense

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Addiction
  • Central Nervous System Depressants
  • Controlled Substances
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Drug Abuse
  • Health
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Hospitals
  • Military Medicine
  • Military Personnel
  • Opioids
  • Pain
  • Pain Management
  • Pharmacies
  • Physicians
  • Therapy
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Defense Financial Management and Audit.
  • Medical or Health Care Field.