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Opioid makers should pay for anti-addiction efforts VIDEO

For Funerals TOO! –

Jan. 13, 2018 – Estimates of the societal cost of opioid addiction and related deaths put the figure at $193 billion. In our state alone, opioids have claimed the lives of 2,400 Marylanders just this past year. Yet after causing millions to become addicted and making billions of dollars in the process, pharmaceutical companies have not repaid their debt to society. Anne Arundel County’s lawsuit against opioid manufacturers, distributors and prescribers, is likely to be one of many targeting these companies for the reckless endangerment they have been engaging in for years.
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