Late2ThePartySupreme Court blocks $6 billion opioid settlement that would have given the Sackler family immunity | CNN Politics
WirrvogelJust for an comparison:
Fatal opioid overdoses and opioid use disorder cost the United States $1.02 trillion in 2017. The most complete accounting to date of America’s opioid crisis was released by CDC in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Costs for spending on health care, opioid use disorder treatment, criminal justice, and lost work productivity, as well as estimates of cost for lost quality of life and lives lost were computed in this study.
And they have the audacity to say how much these $6 billion will help and how dare to delay that help. That’s less than a drop in the ocean.
Mr_BlottDevil’s advocate -
Cost the United States $1.02 trillion
*Has been valued at $1.02 trillion by medical companies but is probably about $4 million to be fair
Rehab costs about $30k for 28 days. As if the hundreds of thousands of deaths and overdoses per year weren’t enough. Suboxone is $700+ per month just for the pills, not including seeing the doctor monthly and random drug tests. Methadone’s not cheap either. Then there’s secondary health issues like sepsis, MRSA, HIV, hepatitis, heart problems, pregnancy issues, withdrawal, DUI injuries/deaths etc.
The list goes on and on and on and on. I wouldn’t be surprised if a trillion barely covered it.