By TINA MUNNELL
The family of Air Force veteran Gerald Bain, who overdosed at the Minneapolis Veterans Home in 2012, is suing the state Department of Veterans Affairs over his death.
The familyâs attorney says administrators at the state-run facility were not paying close enough attention to how much medication Bain was taking when he died.
âTheir personnel were negligent and failed to properly assess and control the use of prescribed and non-prescribed medication,â attorney Richard Nygaard said in the lawsuit filed in January in Hennepin County District Court.
In March 2013, James Bain was appointed as trustee for the heirs and next-of-kin of his brother, Gerald, who died of methadone toxicity 
while living at the veterans home. He was 61.
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