Health Care, Medicaid Cuts And The Opioid Crisis (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. last year: nearly 60,000. Far more than in car crashes. At the heart of that soaring drug death number, opioids. The daily opioid death toll around the country is shocking. Millions struggling with addiction. A big part of the answer has to be treatment. That costs money. Maybe $45 billion in the next decade. Maybe $190 billion. The Senate health care plan earmarks $2 billion. This hour On Point: Are we tackling the opioid crisis, or not? -- Tom Ashbrook

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http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/06/27/health-care-medicaid-cuts-opioid-crisis