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Senator Claire McCaskill Takes on Senator Roy Blunt on Opioid
the Big Pharmaceutical Companies. Epidemic: “This is an Issue That’s
Hit Every Town in America.”
“This is an issue that’s hit every town in America, small
“There is extensive evidence that Insys aggressively pres- and large. … According to the Centers for Disease
sured its employees and the entire medical system to Control and Prevention, over 40,000 people died
increase the use of a fentanyl product during a national from opioid overdose. Now this is just a fraction of the
epidemic that was taking the lives of tens of thousands people that had an opioid overdose. These are the peo-
of Americans a year in order to make more money—it’s ple that died from an opioid overdose in 2016. Forty
hard to imagine anything more despicable,” McCaskill thousand people. ... It was a 28 percent increase over
said. “Their attempts to manipulate the prescription 2015 and a dramatic increase over where we were just
approval process for this drug appear to have been ten years before. Opioid overdoses now surpass car
systemic, and anyone responsible for this manipulation accidents as the number one accidental cause of death
deserves to be prosecuted.” in the country.”
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