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States says opioid crisis has cost them $630B since 2007

by Associated Press
| August 17, 2020 6:03 PM

U.S. state and territorial governments say the opioid epidemic has cost them $630 billion since 2007 and that the cost could balloon to more than $2 trillion over the next 20 years.

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