Relating to collecting a tax from all manufacturers and distributors of opioid drugs

Summary

The bill adds a new excise tax on Schedule II opioid drugs sold to licensed pharmacies, calculated as one cent per 100 pills multiplied by the number of overdose deaths reported in the most recent year. The revenue must be deposited into the Ryan Brown Addiction Prevention and Recovery Fund, and the tax cannot be passed on to patients.

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