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Drugs for Dollars: How Medicaid Helps Fuel the Opioid Epidemic
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Abstract
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, on behalf of Chairman Ron Johnson, issued a Majority Staff report on the role that Medicaid has played in the opioid epidemic by facilitating the use and distribution of opioids. The report found that the expansion of Medicaid has contributed to the opioid epidemic by providing prescription opioids to a larger population and making it profitable to abuse and sell drugs, as represented by criminal cases where Medicaid was improperly used, to obtain and sometimes resell opioids.
Date
2018-01-17
Document Type
Senate Majority Staff Report
Serial Number
Document Length
164 pages
Congress
115
Relation
DOI
Keywords
Staff Reports
PAP Major Code
3: Health
PAP Minor Code
335: Prescription Drug Coverage and Costs