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Analysis Group releases first-ever study to quantify societal costs of opioid abuse

Published in Lab Business Week, November 26th, 2006

A new study published recently in Psychological Medicine found that the costs of opioid abuse in the United States represent a substantial economic burden.

The study is the first of its kind to examine the costs of such prescription drug abuse from a societal perspective.

Analysis Group, a leading economic consulting firm, co-authored the study alongside researchers from Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Services, Outcomes Research (Ortho-McNeil Janssen Scientific Affairs), and Nathaniel Katz, MD, MS, of Tufts University School of Medicine and Analgesic Research. Leading the Analysis Group team were Howard Birnbaum and Alan White, vice...

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