Atlanta VA hospital blamed for visitor delivering drugs?

If you read Wounded Times you know there are huge problems along with plenty of things that we should be angry about. This time the situations are not about what the VA did but about what patients did.

Deaths at Atlanta VA Hospital Prompt Scrutiny
By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY
Associated Press
ATLANTA May 25, 2013 (AP)

One patient with a history of substance abuse and suicidal thoughts was left alone in a waiting room inside the Atlanta VA Medical Center, where he obtained drugs from a hospital visitor and later died of an overdose.

Another patient wandered the 26-acre campus for hours, picking up his prescriptions from an outpatient pharmacy and injecting himself with testosterone before returning voluntarily to his room.

The cases at the Atlanta VA Medical Center are the latest in a string of problems at Veterans Affairs facilities nationwide, prompting outrage from elected officials and congressional scrutiny of what is the largest integrated health care system in the country with nearly 300,000 employees.
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Should the patients have been locked up? No and there is only so much monitoring they can do otherwise but when you consider how the Congress covered their eyes when two wars were being fought yet they refused to force any accountability, it is a bit too late to start blaming the VA for something they didn't do.