New York Opiate Tax

Mercy&Grace

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Posted 9/17/2019 12:04 AM (GMT 0)

If you live in New York and take opiates. This will probably affect you.

https://fortune.com/2019/09/16/new-york-opioid-tax-drugmakers-side-effects

polish_bear_65

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Posted 9/26/2019 12:05 PM (GMT 0)

Do they hope to affect the crisis in any way with this?

straydog

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Posted 9/26/2019 3:14 PM (GMT 0)

Just my thoughts, it will just create another crisis. I could say a lot more but it's against the forum rules to discuss politics, lol.

Mercy&Grace

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Posted 9/26/2019 7:24 PM (GMT 0)

I agree with Susie. It will create another crisis not anticipated.

The objective was to make pharmaceutical companies pay for not being honest about the risk of opiates. Had they been honest when they first became aware. We would not have the problems we now gave.

Pharmaceutical companies have already been sued. Some have settled.others are waiting to go to trial or have already had their trials. Some are already paying. They are not going to allow states to continue to take their money in various ways.

States need to find other ways to fund life long treatments for those addicted. They also need to find new ways of funding state programs like foster care.

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