TOMS RIVER – A virtual roundtable will discuss lowering the cost of prescription drugs, ways to increase access to medically assisted treatments, and making an affordable vaccine for COVID-19 will be held at 5 p.m. on Aug. 31.
Hosted by New Jersey Operating Project, with special guest Rep. Andy Kim (D-3rd), the event is open to everyone. It is called Care our Communities Deserve: A Roundtable for Affordable Drugs and Treatments.
“Medicines only work if everyone can afford them,” the organizers said. “While we struggle to make ends meet and must choose between paying bills and buying expensive prescriptions, drug corporations remain the most profitable industry in America. Now many of these same companies are responsible for developing a COVID-19 vaccine and treatments using billions of our tax dollars with no guarantee that it will be accessible or affordable for us all. Americans pay for the research and development of our medicines, and we deserve to afford them.”
The event will be held on International Overdose Awareness Day. One of the topics involves how prescription painkillers have led to the opioid epidemic.
To register, newjerseyop.org/care-our-communities-deserve/
