U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth are up in arms over the latest case of a pharmaceutical company's dramatic price hikes of a life saving medication.
They're teaming up with 29 other Senators to demand answers from Kaléo Pharmaceuticals for massive price hikes for an easy to use injector device that contians opioid overdose drug naloxone.
The price has surged from $690 in 2014 to $4,500 now. Senators say the price spikes have occured while Congress has been working to help states and local communities acquire Naloxone and the Evzio device.
They say the price hike threatens to price-out families and communities that depend on naloxone to save lives.