mare reen died last summer while being treated at the va s medical center for anxiety and addiction to pain medication. his cause of death, mixed drug toxicity according to a county medical examiner. the va prescribed 14 drugs including painkillers. . it said 14. we didn t know that. it was in the autopsy report. the doctor in charge the prescription policies was dr. david houlihan. some patients and staff called him the candy man. and the hospital canned yea land. according to va documents obtained by the center for investigative reporting, prescriptions for four common opiates quadrupled. they come out worse than when they went in. they get all drugged up. jason wasn t the only patient to die under dr. houlihan s care. carrie spent years piecing together befdz what happened to