| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | Legal
USA. The Billion Dollar Drug for Opioid Victims Has a Problem: It’s Addictive
(...) Suboxone, which was introduced in 2002, has become a huge money-maker since the opioid epidemic swept the country at the beginning of the 21st century. In 2015 alone, more than 52,000 Americans died from heroin and synthetic opioid overdoses, according to the Centers for Disease Control, nearly the number of Americans killed in the Vietnam War. The drug has generated $1-2 billion a year in revenues, first for its initial British manufacturer, Reckitt Benckiser, and the Richmond, Virginia-based company that it spun off two years ago, Indivior. (Yahoo! Finance, 31.03.2017)
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