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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Medication Prescribing Improvement Act of 2016

Introduced: April 27, 2016 Introduced by: Rounds, Mike Republican · South Dakota See on congress.gov
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Apr 27, 2016
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
Apr 27, 2016
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Medication Prescribing Improvement Act of 2016

This bill directs the Department of Defense to: (1) review the prescribing practices at military treatment facilities of pharmaceutical agents for post-traumatic stress treatment, (2) implement a process or processes to monitor the prescribing practices at military treatment facilities of pharmaceutical agents that are discouraged from use under the VA/DOD Clinical Practice Guideline for Management of Post-Traumatic Stress, and (3) implement a plan to address deviations from such guideline.

What's happening now April 27, 2016

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2861: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Medication Prescribing Improvement Act of 2016. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2861/
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"S. 2861: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Medication Prescribing Improvement Act of 2016." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2861/.
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S. 2861, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2861/.
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