NOPAIN for Veterans Act ensures non-opioid pain medications are included in VA's National Formulary.
The NOPAIN for Veterans Act amends title 38, United States Code, to mandate the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to include non-opioid pain management drugs or biological products in the national formulary and drug standardization list of the Department. This ensures that such medications, approved by the Food and Drug Administration for reducing postoperative pain or producing postsurgical or regional analgesia without acting on opioid receptors, are available to veterans. The Act prohibits the use of funds from the Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund for implementing these changes.
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