The addiction crisis is increasingly eroding health systems' finances, with the treatment of opioid use disorder costing hospitals more than $95 billion a year, new data from Premier Inc. shows.
A wave of transformative but hugely expensive treatments is challenging the budgets of health systems in wealthy nations. Now countries with far fewer resources are wrestling with how to cover the therapies.
People in downtown Brunswick who may have had trouble affording their prescriptions or getting to the nearest pharmacy can now find what they need just a few blocks away.