Funds Included In Spending Bill To Fight ‘Cataclysmic’ Opioid Crisis Not Nearly Enough, Advocates Say

The $4.6 billion allocated is a record amount for the government. But, by comparison, the U.S. is spending more than $7 billion annually on discretionary domestic funding on AIDS, an epidemic with a death toll that peaked in 1995 at 43,000. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has directed federal prisons to use one particular treatment that would benefit a single drugmaker in his plan to battle the crisis, and rural areas are struggling because of a dearth of methadone vans.

from Kaiser Health News https://ift.tt/2pE02R0