House Introduces Bill to Expand Chiropractic Access to Military Retirees, Families

A bill introduced last week in the House of Representatives and would expand access to chiropractic services to military retirees, dependents and survivors through the Department of Defense TRICARE health program.
It would also establish, in the wake of the nationwide opioid crisis, an important non-drug option for pain management in the program.
Do you think this would be beneficial for the military and their families?
House Introduces Bill to Expand Chiropractic Access to Military Retirees, Families

Researchers at the Palmer Chiropractic College were recently awarded a $718,00 research grant form the National Institutes of Health.
The DoD/VA Pain Management Task Force now recommends chiropractic as a Tier 1 treatment within its comprehensive pain-management program. 
This study will find how chiropractic care might be best integrated into existing Veterans Health Administration (VHA) clinical practice guidelines for veterans with a combination of musculoskeletal pain and mental health conditions.
Do you think having better access to chiropractic care will decrease the problem of narcotic dependence and deaths of the veterans?

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Congressional Committee Calls Chiropractic "Key Benefit" Within Department of Defense Health Care System

"Congressional Committee Calls Chiropractic "Key Benefit" Within Department of Defense Health Care System, Urges Pay Equity System". The Congress has been urging the DOD for ten years to integrate chiropractic care into the military and the DOD has unfortunately very slow in doing this adding this benefit for our military. This is another effort by Congress to speed up this process.

Congressional Committee Calls Chiropractic "Key Benefit" Within Department of Defense Health Care System