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Obama signs bill as opioids take toll on older women

As opioid addiction reaches crisis proportions, especially among middle-aged women, President Obama signed the bipartisan Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act.

By Marlene Y. Satter | Updated on July 25, 2016
As opioid addiction reaches crisis proportions, especially among middle-age women, President Obama signed the bipartisan Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act. (Photo: Getty)

Congress has passed, and President Obama has signed, a bill aimed at the opioid addiction crisis — although no funding is attached to pay for the measures the bill contains.

Ironically, the crisis appears to be taking an outsized toll on women over 50, according to an article on Grandparents.com, which said that “[t]here has been a 450 percent increase in the number of deaths among women since 1999, in particular, a statistic attributed to opioid use.”

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