And I started weaning myself off of those things. But thousands of our veterans, that wasn't their path. Our veteran community is facing an addiction epidemic, a suicide epidemic. And those two things go hand in hand. Your ability to perform in life is directly correlated to whether you are hazy in your daily operation of life because of all these medications that you are on. (07:20–07:27)
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