Capsule: Health Wonks’ Super Bowl and State Opioid Updates

Jan. 13, 2020, 10:46 AM UTC

Welcome to Capsule, where we’ll give you your weekly dose of what to watch out for in the health-care space. Each week reporters Ayanna Alexander and Jacquie Lee get you prepped for the week’s hottest health-care topics.

Jacquie: Lawmakers will discuss states’ efforts to address the opioid crisis on Tuesday and how the federal government can help. Health agencies have laid out several initiatives to cut back on overdose deaths and get more people into drug treatment.

The federal Medicare and Medicaid agency announced in September that states hit hardest by the opioid epidemic will get $48.5 million to ...

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