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. And that's something that has to be addressed. And if there is a non narcotic option out there that can help even some people get off of prescription drugs, then that has to be a conversation that veterans can have with their doctor. (07:29–07:41)
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Asserts that medication-induced haze affects life performance.
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