A Unique New York Law Allows State To Collect Taxes From Opioid Makers To Defray Cost Of Crisis. Companies Are Not Happy About It.

The state has sent the companies bills totaling about $600 million under the new Opioid Stewardship Act. In other news from the epidemic: pharmacists are trained on dispensing naloxone; a company hikes the price of an anti-overdose drug by 600 percent; Rhode Island's develops strategy to get prisoners effective addiction treatment; bixsexual women are more prone to misusing prescription opioids; and more.

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