The VA tends to throw a LOT of drugs at people.
It depends on the doctor..and they vary.
If there were more alternate services less drugs would be needed. but then, we need to give that tax payor money to “the hood”.
That is what they do best, IMHO. Drugs of all sorts and lots of them. They may do some things well but there is something wrong with the way they so easily throw drugs at every problem as a first resort instead of a last resort.