6) Drug and alcohol treatment program improvement:
a) PTSD driven approach in care (for those this applies),
b) if patient appears to be a potential harm to themselves or others, they be admitted under psychiatric observation for a 48 or 72 hour period, especially in the event a patient has not followed all inpatient treatment requirements,
c) an understanding that the addiction is secondary to the primary issue; PTSD, in the cases that the Veteran suffers from PTSD.
In the suicide video published on Facebook by John Toombs, he mentions one option being “checked into a psych ward.” This denotes that the provider may have though he might have been a threat to himself. Although, John Toombs may have been la two days of medication, he still had a right to treatment.