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...The singular purpose of this scheme was for Medicare to obtain prescription drugs without paying fair market value, it said....
...Prescriptions have soared since the spring, and last week, rules were changed so patients can get the drug from pharmacists without visiting a doctor....
...The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that opioid overdoses have killed 500,000 Americans over two decades....
...The US opioid epidemic has cost about half a million lives over the last 20 years, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as many Americans became addicted first to prescription...
...“He insisted on being able to draw a direct correlation between the dollars we pay the speaker and the number of dollars we received back via prescriptions that they prescribed,” Mr Burlakoff said....
...This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on November 25 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc....
...Yet off-label prescription is still rife....
...Peter Bach, director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering cancer centre, said even if the cost of raw materials was rising, this was usually a low proportion of the...
...“The Center for Disease Control has made it very clear: the reason so many Americans are addicted to opioids is that the medical community began to prescribe very aggressively starting in the mid-90s....
...Opioid makers and distributors are facing over 1,600 legal cases related to the epidemic, as more than 130 Americans die every day of opioid overdoses, according to the Center for Disease Control....
...The total bill for retail prescription drugs in 2017 was $333bn....
...of the litigation is not to bankrupt these opioid companies, but to abate the current opioid epidemic and seek long-term, sustainable solutions,” said the plaintiffs’ executive committee in the National Prescription...
...The annual bill for tackling the epidemic is estimated at $79bn by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
...Legal costs and reputational risks relating to opioid addiction — which is responsible for 116 overdose deaths a day — are mounting for both the manufacturers and distributors of prescription drugs in the...
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on August 21, 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...(City AM) Prescription addiction The UK launched a review into prescription drug addiction....
...More than 183,000 Americans died from an overdose involving a prescription opioid between 1999 and 2015, and the number of annual fatalities has quadrupled over the same period, according to the US Centers...
...In the US, sales of prescription opioid surged by almost fourfold from 1999 – 2014, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
...A 2009 Supreme Court case involving prescription drug labels, Wyeth v Levine, greenlighted state laws that are stricter than federal laws....
...Tom Frieden, the former head of the US Centers for Disease Control and previously New York City's health commissioner, is well placed to try....
...charge prices high enough to cover the costs of discovering a drug and bringing it to market, a process that can take more than 10 years and costs on average $2.6bn per medicine, according to the Tufts Center...
...Opioid abuse has been described as a “national epidemic” by the US Centers for Disease Control, putting pressure on the FDA to find ways to contain it....
...“Orphan drugs are among the most expensive medications in the US, often costing tens of thousands of dollars per prescription,” the report said....
...It turns out that the UK and European countries are taking a slightly different approach from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
...Earlier this month, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said heroin use had increased by 63 per cent between 2002 and 2013 across the US, especially among women, people with private insurance...
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