White House: True cost of opioid epidemic tops $500 billion
WASHINGTON (AP) " The White House says the true cost of the opioid drug epidemic in 2015 was $504 billion, or roughly half a trillion dollars.In an analysis to be released Monday, the Council of Economic Advisers says the figure is more than six times larger than the most recent estimate. The council said a 2016 private study estimated that prescription opioid overdoes, abuse and dependence in the U.S. in 2013 cost $78.5 billion. Most of that was attributed to health care and criminal [...]
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