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Alkermes is not the only company lobbying.. seems Indivior is lobbying their suboxone film to lawmakers .. but Maryland removed it from its Medicaid Preferred Drug List, last July… other buprenorphine products not removed.. ouch!

https://morningconsult.com/opinions/troubled-opioid-treatment-drug-maker-fights-lawsuits-policy-challenges/

.. it's not the buprenorphine, it's the film that is being smuggled into prisons, that's an issue with lawmakers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/smuggling-of-opioid-recovery-drug-furthers-addictions/2017/02/24/7fc42598-efdf-11e6-9973-c5efb7ccfb0d_story.html?utm_term=.5e618161618e

oh and not just NPR but NYT is challenging the validity and reliability of Alkermes' pitch for Vivitrol.. interesting

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/11/health/vivitrol-drug-opioid-addiction.html

"As health secretary, he said, he had to call a meeting to tell Alkermes to “back off talking down methadone and buprenorphine” to legislators as the company aggressively lobbied to get Maryland to use Vivitrol.

“They’re exploiting a stigma that exists out of a very narrow view of their own economic self-interest,” he said. “And the result is going to be more people dying if they cannot get access to effective treatment.”