Sentences with phrase «say opioid manufacturers»

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Taking dangerous quantities of the otherwise safe loperamide is one strategy being used by people addicted to opioid painkillers and other drugs since it can increase opioid absorption in the gut; the FDA says it is now working with loperamide manufacturers to change its packaging so that it comes with fewer doses and is thus harder to abuse.

Sanders, an independent who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, said the bill aimed to hold opioid manufacturers accountable for their role in the epidemic and force them to help pay for the crisis, which the White House Council of Economic Advisers has estimated cost more than $ 500 billion in 2015..

Flanagan now want to protect the 40 percent Trump windfall tax cut to health insurance companies and opioid manufacturers, which will mean cuts to education and Medicaid,» he said.

We would have an opioid surcharge, 2 cents per milligram will be paid by the manufacturer and would go to offset the costs that we're spending to fight opioid abuse,» Cuomo said on January 16.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city is filing a lawsuit against the country's largest opioid manufacturers, arguing they are fueling the crisis.

Erie County Attorney Michael Siragusa said he has been working with an outside law firm since November to craft a suit holding drug manufacturers accountable for the painful toll the opioid and heroin epidemic has had on the region.

Republicans in the state Senate huddled for hours in private at the Capitol Thursday afternoon, emerging to say little, other than that a tax on prescription drug manufacturers in order to combat the opioid epidemic remains on the negotiating table.

New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says that 41 state attorneys general have launched an investigation into manufacturers and distributors of prescription opioid drugs.

We would have an opioid surcharge, 2 cents per milligram will be paid by the manufacturer and would go to offset the costs that we're spending to fight opioid abuse,» Cuomo said on January 16th.

He said that some of the money dedicated to opioids in the recent government - spending bill would be distributed to agencies to help purchase naloxone, and that he had been in talks with naloxone manufacturers, including Kaleo and Adapt Pharma, about pricing and access.