Reveal: The VA’s Deadly Pain Pill Habit

Reveal: The VA’s Deadly Pain Pill Habit

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The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs is prescribing highly addictive painkillers to vets at an alarming rate – an increase of 270 percent in the past 12 years. Meet the men and women who served our country, only to get strung out by their own doctors at home. The episode also includes the lawyer planning Edward Snowden’s defense, the attorney representing America’s worst charities and the professor data mining redacted documents.