Drug maker upped opioid-overdose antidote price 600 percent. Taxpayers paid - STAT

Drug maker upped opioid-overdose antidote price 600 percent. Taxpayers paid - STAT

STAT Plus: A drug maker boosted the price of its opioid-overdose antidote by 600 percent, and taxpayers suffered

By ED SILVERMAN

AP PHOTO/CLIFF OWEN

Kaleo circumvented the traditional pharmaceutical market by subsidizing patients who were given its Evzio opioid antidote device.

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