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Monday, 08/01/2016 5:51:32 PM

Monday, August 01, 2016 5:51:32 PM

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Opioid-related insurance claims rose more than 3,000 percent 2007 to 2014

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/01/opioid-related-insurance-claims-rose-more-than-3000-percent-2007-to-2014.html

"The United States is in the midst of an epidemic of opioid dependence, abuse and overdose," notes the analysis by Fair Health, a nonprofit group that focuses on transparency in health-care costs and health insurance information.

More than 28,000 people died from opioid overdose deaths in 2014, which was a record, and a prime reason that Congress in late July passed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act. CARA is aimed at supporting efforts to limit opioid addiction, increase treatment and recovery, and expand access to a drug, naloxone, that reverses opioid overdose

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