Frustrated by chronic suffering, Jason Bishop from Tomah visited various Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals. According to 39-year-old Bishop, the VA hospitals presented him remedy that includes prescriptions for narcotics. Bishop said that the doses didn't finish pain.

Bishop said, "They don't fix you. They are not attempting to come across an answer. They just manage you with medication". The hospital is called as 'Candy Land' in the neighborhood due to the prescriptions of narcotics came from its physicians. Earlier, a former Marine Jason Simcakoski died in the hospital's inpatient care unit and cause of the death was an overdose. On Monday, the United States Residence and Senate committees will hold joint field hearing in Tomah.

Bishop, who served as a transport plane loadmaster in the Air Force in Kosovo and Bosnia, said that he had an appointment in 1999 to check on intestinal troubles. At that time, doctors found that the 39-year-old man had sick sinus syndrome. Doctors at a Little Rock military base implanted a pacemaker to enable Bishop's heart, he Bishop was left with chronic pain. According to him, when he was frustrated with the pain, he visited multiple VA hospitals that prescribed narcotics, but none of the hospital gave him consistent care plans. After that, he met Tomah VA Chief of Employees David Houlihan.

According to Bishop, Houlihan said that he was medically mismanaged. Like other doctors, Houlihan prescribed Bishop an opioid. As per Bishop's health-related records, several physicians at Tomah prescribed the man a number of doses. Those were high doses, according to G. Caleb Alexander, co-director of the Johns Hopkins center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness.

According to Bishop, the drugs made him feel like a zombie and did not do away with his pain. Alexander said that a combination of two doses could raises risk of injury and death.