[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 34 (Wednesday, March 2, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1231-S1232]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
SA 3390. Mr. DAINES submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 3378 proposed by Mr. Grassley (for himself, Mr. Leahy, Mr.
Whitehouse, Mr. Portman, Ms. Klobuchar, Ms. Ayotte, Mr. Graham, Mr.
Coons, Mr. Cornyn, and Mr. Durbin) to the bill S. 524, to authorize the
Attorney General to award grants to address the national epidemics of
prescription opioid abuse and heroin use; which was ordered to lie on
the table; as follows:
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(19) Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder are also
at a high risk of substance abuse. According to the
Department of Veterans Affairs, more than 20 percent of
veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder also have a
substance abuse disorder.
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