Opioid Solutions: Insurance, Legislation Or Litigation?

By Adam Fleischer (March 19, 2018, 12:32 PM EDT) -- The past month has illustrated that while the opioid epidemic has worsened, solutions to the crisis have begun to emerge. Some solutions are rooted in legislation, while others derive from litigation. All solutions are destined to be very expensive and raise questions as to whether the cost of the opioid battle is more justifiably absorbed by public health legislation, the private pharmaceutical industry or the insurers whose policies were aimed at compensation of discrete injury and of course not wholesale societal repair. These issues are summarized below....

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