Simmons among firms chosen to represent Cook County in opioid ...

Madison County Record-21 hours ago

Nationally, the lawsuit cites a 2016 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimating the “national impact of prescription opioid overdoses, abuse and dependence” at $78.5 billion, including “lost productivity” at $42 billion, “health insurance” at $26 billion, “criminal justice” at $7.6 billion and “substance ...

Drug prices rise as pharma profit soars

ModernHealthcare.com-21 hours ago

The amount of money people spend on prescription drugs has nearly doubled over the past three decades as pharmaceutical sales and profit margins have ballooned, according to ... Retail prescriptiondrug expenses accounted for about 12% of total U.S. healthcare spending in 2015, up from about 7% through the 1990s.