Baltimore Officials Urge Trump To Lower Naloxone Price Through Law Last Considered During Anthrax Scare

Baltimore health officials are urging the Trump administration to use a law, which was last considered by the Bush administration during the 2001 anthrax scare , to cut the price of the opioid-overdose drug naloxone. The law lets the government break patents, allowing government programs to buy cheaper generics. “The most recent use of § 1498 in the pharmaceutical context was in 2001, when then-Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tommy Thompson, publicly considered using the authority to procure generic...