Area company heads up development of potential solution for opioid crisis

The opioid crisis has hit America hard. A Sarasota company — working in tandem with a physician assistant who’s seen the effects firsthand — moves forward with a possible solution.

  • By Grier Ferguson
  • | 6:00 a.m. June 22, 2018
Lori Sax. Robrady Director of Manufacturing Operations Colin Leonard with Robrady CEO and Design Director Robert Brady, holding the PILL device.
Lori Sax. Robrady Director of Manufacturing Operations Colin Leonard with Robrady CEO and Design Director Robert Brady, holding the PILL device.
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There’s a high cost to the opioid crisis. A White House report from The Council of Economic Advisers in November 2017 estimates that over 33,000 Americans died of a drug overdose involving opioids in 2015. It also estimates that the economic cost of the crisis was $504 billion in 2015. 

 

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