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GAO-16-158: Published: Jan 5, 2016. Publicly Released: Jan 5, 2016.
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What GAO Found
The Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) have collaborated to develop clinical practice guidelines for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and mild traumatic brain injury (TBI). The mild TBI guideline does not include recommendations based on scientific evidence regarding the use of medications to treat symptoms because of a lack of available research; however, the PTSD guideline discourages the use of benzodiazepines (a sedative) and states that the use of antipsychotics to treat PTSD lacks support, based on available research. VHA monitors the prescribing of benzodiazepines and antipsychotics to treat PTSD nationally and by VA medical centers (VAMC) and requires VAMCs to implement improvement plans if their prescribing is significantly higher than the average of all VAMCs. GAO found that DOD relies on each military service to review the medication prescribing practices of its providers and that the Army does not monitor the prescribing of medications to treat PTSD on an ongoing basis. Without such monitoring, the Army may be unable to identify and address practices that are inconsistent with the guideline. Federal internal control standards require agencies to have control activities to establish performance measures, implement ongoing monitoring to assess performance, and ensure that the findings of reviews are promptly resolved.
As of August 2015, VA's formulary included 57 percent of the psychiatric, pain, and sleep medications on DOD's formulary. These medications are prescribed to treat symptoms common among servicemembers and veterans with PTSD or mild TBI, and most of the DOD prescriptions in fiscal year 2014 for these medications (88 percent) were on both formularies. In addition, DOD and VHA officials GAO interviewed agreed that the differences did not affect the continuation of medications for servicemembers transitioning from DOD to VHA.
VHA has two key efforts to help ensure continuation of medications for transitioning servicemembers, including those with PTSD or mild TBI, but a lack of clarity of one effort may limit its effectiveness. VHA's nonformulary request process is one key effort that helps ensure newly transitioned veterans avoid medication discontinuations due to differences between the DOD and VA formularies. VHA monitors nonformulary requests. VHA data show that 81 percent of requests submitted from fiscal years 2012 through 2014 were approved, and 98 percent of requests were adjudicated within VHA's required time frame of 96 hours. The other key effort is VHA's 2015 policy instructing its providers not to discontinue mental health medications initiated by DOD providers due to formulary differences. However, VHA providers GAO interviewed had varying interpretations of which medications are covered by this policy, and VHA officials acknowledged that the definition of a mental health medication could be subjective. Federal internal control standards state that agencies should establish control activities, such as developing clear policies. Because VHA's policy lacks clarity, VHA providers may be inappropriately discontinuing mental health medications due to formulary differences, which could increase the risk of adverse health effects for transitioning servicemembers.
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Medication continuation, when clinically appropriate, is critical for transitioning servicemembers with PTSD or TBI who have been prescribed psychiatric, pain, or sleep medications. Adverse health effects may occur if these medications are inappropriately discontinued.
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 included a provision for GAO to assess transitions of care, particularly medication continuation for servicemembers with PTSD or TBI transitioning to VHA. GAO examined (1) the extent to which DOD and VHA developed and monitored recommended medication practices for PTSD and TBI; (2) the extent to which psychiatric, pain, and sleep medications on DOD's formulary are on VA's formulary, and how differences might affect medication continuation; and (3) key efforts VHA has to help ensure medication continuation, and the extent it is monitoring these efforts. GAO reviewed documents and analyzed DOD and VHA data from fiscal years 2012 through 2015; and interviewed DOD and VHA officials from headquarters and five Army and DOD facilities, selected for variation in size and location. GAO focused on the Army as the largest number of its servicemembers served in recent conflicts.
What GAO Recommends
GAO recommends that the Army monitor prescribing practices of medications discouraged under the PTSD guideline and that VHA clarify its medication continuation policy. DOD and VHA concurred with the recommendations.
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Recommendations for Executive Action
Status: Open
Comments: We requested an update on the status of this recommendation. As of June 21, 2016, we are waiting for a response from DOD.
Recommendation: The Secretary of Defense should direct the Secretary of the Army to implement processes to review and monitor the Army military treatment facility prescribing practices for medications discouraged under the PTSD guideline and address identified deviations.
Agency Affected: Department of Defense
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: VHA developed, jointly with DOD, a list of medications for transitioning service members that includes medications for the control of pain, sleep disorders, and psychiatric conditions, including post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as alcohol deterrents/narcotic antagonists and smoking cessation agents. The list clarifies which medications are covered by VHA's January 2015 policy on continuation of mental health medications.
Recommendation: The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should direct the Under Secretary for Health to clarify which types of medications are covered by VHA's January 2015 policy on medication continuation.
Agency Affected: Department of Veterans Affairs
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Bits of concepts throughout the series are clever.
Pretty much the rest of the characters, and books, annoy and/or frustrate me.
Another enjoyable light adventure in the Discworld, with Death – the Grim Reaper – taking on a human apprentice by the name of Mort (short for Mortimer) and showing him the ropes. Now onto my fourth book in the series, I find that as I become more attuned to their tone and parameters I'm enjoying them a lot more on their own terms. Mort is perhaps the best so far; it has great ideas regarding the nature of life and death (and natural justice), giving author Terry Pratchett licence to fully employ his considerable powers of imagination.
The plot did get a little busy towards the end (the one common criticism I have of the books so far) but Pratchett gets a lot of comedic mileage out of the idea of the Grim Reaper. He makes Death, the character, hilarious and sympathetic for the reader. The joke never gets old and a surprising amount of pathos is also wrung out of Death's situation and his interactions with Mort and others. All told, whilst the Discworld books still haven't matched up to their reputation, I'm really enjoying them. When they're as charming and unassuming and easy to dip into as Mort is, it's hard not to.
Giving it five stars because it is so beautiful, even though I haven't read it yet.
Edit: this is the first Pratchett I have read to the end, it is quite entertaining and sometimes funny and sometimes witty, and probably has some deep inner meaning about life and death that I find hard to fathom. But it is a beautiful edition, a book to fondle fondly.
Having finished the final Discworld novel earlier this year, and having recently marked the first anniversary of Terry Pratchett's passing, this seemed like a good time to start a re-read of the series, or at least a partial one. Plus, a friend of mine is currently reading the Discworld books for the first time, and there's nothing like watching someone else discovering something you've loved to make you nostalgic for it.
I figured I'd start with the Death books, mainly because Death is probably my favorite character in the entire series. Well, OK, maybe it's a toss-up between him and Granny Weatherwax, but I remember liking the Death books, overall, a little more than the witches ones.
I was, however, a teensy bit nervous about revisiting this one. I remembered it as possibly my favorite of the series, but that doesn't seem to be a widely shared opinion, and it seemed very likely to me that the only reason I remember it with such fondness is because it's the point where I fell in love with the series, not because it was actually a standout.
Well, there may be something in that, but if there is, I don't care, because I loved it this time, too. Admittedly, the plot is slighter than most of the others, but that's not at all a problem, as this one is really all about the characters and the world-building. (And the witty writing, of course.) And I don't care if the ending features an almost literal deus ex machina, either, it still left me feeling all warm and fuzzy. There may be a couple of oddities here due to this being very early in the series and Pratchett not having worked out all the details of his world and its inhabitants yet, but they're pretty minor.
My affection for Discworld's Death has only been reinforced by revisiting his first appearance as a major character, too. I confess, I am something of a sucker for this particular character type: the inhuman outsider looking in on humanity with a sort of wistful affection but a limited amount of understanding. And Pratchett captures that in a deft, subtle way that hints at a lot of complexity inside that fleshless skull. (Or, y'know, wherever it is that Death keeps his complexity.)
Much as I enjoyed this re-read, though, there is a note of melancholy to it, too. Because it's impossible not to compare the prose in this one to that of the last few Discworld books, written after a particularly cruel and unfair manifestation of a particularly cruel and unfair disease got its evil hooks into Pratchett's brain. And the contrast is hard to ignore: the more recent books may be perfectly decently written, with occasional flashes of bright wit, but they don't remotely come close to the exuberant, playful linguistic cleverness that's evident in almost every paragraph of Mort. Death has it right: there is no justice.
Anyway. I will definitely be continuing to re-visit the Disc from time to time over the course of, I don't know, maybe the next year or so. Re-reading the entire series is entirely too daunting a project for me, I'm afraid, but I am planning on at least reading through the rest of the Death books, and then the City Watch ones
And I'm still sad that there will be no more Discworld books from Sir Terry, but this exercise has reminded that all the ones he already gave us are still sitting on my shelves waiting to be loved all over again, and that makes me happy.
The plot leaps along, but the main pleasure is Death itself, as he progresses through a Job Centre interview to a spell as a short-order cook, and further hilarities. Mort should be required reading for all projectors of serious three-volume epic fantasies. Read this, and be subverted.
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Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestseller in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.
In this Discworld installment, Death comes to Mort with an offer he can't refuse -- especially since being, well, dead isn't compulsory.As Death's apprentice, he'll have free board and lodging, use of the company horse, and he won't need time off for family funerals. The position is everything Mort thought he'd ever wanted, until he discovers that this perfect job can be a killer on his love life.
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Princeton's Public Intellectual
Published: September 15, 1991
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West and his wife have been living in their house only since last fall, and it has a spare quality that reflects his restless mind. The floors are covered by thick white shag carpets. The walls are lined with elaborate African masks and colorful canvases. In the study a stereo and three stacks of cassette tapes, mostly blues and funk, sit on the floor beside a green plastic mail bin full of magazines. Otherwise the room is empty, except for a desk covered by neat stacks of journal articles and manuscripts, and a card table laden with books.
What's striking is how full-bodied ideas are for West. When he punctuates the discussion with examples from popular culture, he does so with a genuine seriousness of purpose, as if to show that any cultural artifact is a legitimate candidate for scrutiny. In his collection "Prophetic Fragments," an essay expounding a socialist theory of racism is followed by a piece in which black rap is described as "the last form of transcendence available to young black ghetto dwellers." Later on, West hustles me into the local Sam Goody's to buy a tape by the Gap Band, named after three streets in Tulsa: Greenwood, Archer and Pine.
On the way there, he talks about the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, his idol as a student at Harvard. I ask why Wittgenstein, one of the least worldly philosophers of the 20th century, was a hero for an 18-year-old black socialist. "He believed that to really engage in philosophical inquiry means that your very life is at stake," West says in a whisper.
He lets that sink in, then tells me a story he came across in Ray Monk's recent biography of Wittgenstein. As a schoolteacher in a tiny Austrian village, the philosopher had indulged a penchant for corporal punishment. Years later, tormented by guilt, he tracked down and apologized to each of the students whom he'd abused. West acts out the entire scene, playing both parts: " Witt genstein? Yeeaahh, I remember you. You were that cat who was always slapping us around. But that was 20 years ago, man, what the hell are you doing here?!" West clasps his hands in mock prayer, speaking with a heavy German accent over his Southern lilt. "I have come to apologize for my abominable behavior," West-as-Wittgenstein begs with high Viennese seriousness, before disintegrating into a throaty laugh.
Princeton may seem an odd place for the most promising Afro-American studies program in the country. In this genteel enclave of power and prestige, one thinks more of exclusive eating clubs and F. Scott Fitzgerald than of Afro-American studies, but West assures me this is the "new" Princeton, whose open-minded professors are eager to integrate the program into its curriculum. The faculty associated with it is a distinguished group and includes the novelist Toni Morrison, the historian Nell Painter and Arnold Rampersad, the biographer of Langston Hughes. "We are a critical mass with links throughout the university that actually brings intellectual issues to life by examining questions other disciplines focus on, but in light of the history of black Americans," West says. "To do this you must be part of the wider conversation."
Toni Morrison is convinced the program has become Princeton's intellectual center. "Afro-American studies is on the cutting edge of issues being debated around the world," she says. "Cornel shows us how the academy ought to work. He uses his powerful intellect as a harvester, not a weapon. Instead of carving out a small place for himself, he makes this place bigger."
Despite West's popularity, the question nags: Is he too inclusive? Has he tried to be all things to all people? A public intellectual who makes incursions (West's word) into a variety of disciplines and causes will always be found wanting by specialists who confine themselves to one. This is a price West is willing to pay. But at what point does a position that tries to accommodate so many disparate voices dissipate its authority? It's too early to know. The kind of speculative, wide-ranging synthesis West hopes to achieve may well be simply beyond the reach of such a young man. He is incredibly learned for someone his age; but so far, the voices of his intellectual heroes speak too loudly in his work. In a sense, the real prophetic voice of Cornel West has yet to be heard.
Night has fallen over Princeton. Cornel West straightens the vest of his three-piece suit, loosens his tie and offers me a glass of white wine. West's study is clouded over from countless refills of Captain Black pipe tobacco. He rests his hand on a pile of books accumulated during our five-hour conversation. My head hurts. West, unfazed, is talking about his affinity with the early Marx who, in his "Theses on Feuerbach," was obsessed with "making the world philosophical."
"He is talking about philosophy making the world more morally and politically acceptable for the flourishing of human individuality," says West, hanging on the last word, "and the world itself changing in light of ideas and their consequences, which is a deep, deep pragmatist cum Marxist formulation."
Is that West's own ambition? "I don't think I have actually written a substantive text yet, and perhaps I won't write anything really profound until I am 45 and am on my 10th book," he says wistfully. "But if you have the kind of calling I do, there is a sense that if you don't keep teaching and writing, you'll just explode."
Photos: West at a campus rally this spring. (Photograph by Dominique Callan)(pg. 39); Cornel West makes a point at the CUNY Socialist Scholars Conference, held at Manhattan Community College in April. (Photograph by Andrew Lichtenstein/Impact Visuals)(pg. 43)


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