Drug company raised price of lifesaving opioid overdose antidote more than 600 percent



As the nation struggled with the rising number of opioid deaths, a private drug company increased the price of an overdose antidote more than 600 percent, a Senate subcommittee says in a new report.

from https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2018/11/19/kaleo-opioid-overdose-antidote-naloxone-evzio-rob-portman-medicare-medicaid/2060033002/
https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2018/11/01/USAT/534015ad-22f3-41f6-8e58-5abf4db75d16-AP_Opioid_Epidemic_Test_Strips.JPG?width=534&height=401&fit=bounds&auto=webp

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