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Senate Has the Power to Get Miracle Medications to Opioid Addicts

BIO President and CEO Jim Greenwood posted the following op-ed on Linked-In today, making the case for the U.S. Senate to act on legislation that would empower the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services to broaden coverage of medication-assisted treatment to help Americans in the throes of opioid addiction.How serious is our national opioid emergency? More than 115 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose. By contrast, 44 people in this country died a day during the peak of the AIDS c
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