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We're keeping our promise on concurrent receipt.
The push for concurrent receipt is not based on any promise.
With little debate, 402 House members and 83 senators signed on to bills granting military retirees an expensive new benefit that goes by the euphemism "concurrent receipt".
So with concurrent receipt, a retiree could hold a full-time job in the private sector, receive a full military pension and get VA disability payments to boot.
The Bush Administration is threatening to veto the defense spending bill, now in negotiation in a House-Senate conference committee, if, as seems likely, concurrent receipt is included.
With the added incentive of full concurrent receipt, Veterans Affairs estimates that 70% of all retirees who weren't found disabled by Defense would eventually win disabled status from the VA.
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In a study limited to patients with severe respiratory disease, receipt of concurrent benzodiazepines and opioid analgesics was associated with increased risk of total mortality.
We hypothesized that receipt of concurrent benzodiazepines and opioid analgesics would be associated with death from drug overdose and that this association would be dose dependent and vary by type of benzodiazepine and dosing schedule.
29 In a study of veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, receipt of concurrent benzodiazepines and opioid analgesics, combined with antidepressants, was found to be associated with increased risk of adverse events.
We investigated the relation between the receipt of concurrent benzodiazepines and opioid analgesics and death from drug overdose in patients receiving prescription opioids for the treatment of acute or chronic pain and pain associated with cancer.
Although we were unable to determine whether benzodiazepine prescribing patterns are the direct cause of death from drug overdose because of the observational design of this study, we found that receipt of concurrent benzodiazepines was associated with an increased risk of death from overdose in this large national sample of veterans who received opioid analgesics.
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