Summary NURS FPX6026 Assessment 2 1.docx NURS-FPX6026 Biopsychosocial Population Health Policy Proposal NURS-FPX6026: Biopsychosocial Concepts for Advanced Nursing Practice II Biopsychosocial Population Health Policy Proposal The health care industry has

NURS FPX6026 Assessment 2 NURS-FPX6026 Biopsychosocial Population Health Policy Proposal NURS-FPX6026: Biopsychosocial Concepts for Advanced Nursing Practice II Biopsychosocial Population Health Policy Proposal The health care industry has come to acknowledge the rise of the opioid crisis over the past two decades. However, this does not take away from the necessity of pain relief for patients suffering from chronic pain, who are most often prescribed opioid treatment. Opioid treatment does show promise in short-term trials (Sehgal et al., 2013), but long-term treatments carry with them significant risk of addiction, adverse side effects, and prescription drug abuse (Franklin, 2014). The issue of opioid abuse and addiction is further complicated by the comorbidity of mental health problems in patients. In this context, veterans are a particularly vulnerable population because they often present with chroni