Economics
It’s Getting More Expensive to Get High
- ‘Basket of vice’ made up of four generic groups of drugs
- Costs tallied for opioids, cocaine, cannabis and amphetamines
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Almost everyone, from President Donald Trump on down, agrees that Americans are getting gouged when they buy the kinds of drugs you can find at CVS or Walgreens.
They pay a high price for other drugs too. That’s one finding of the latest Bloomberg Global Vice Index, an annual tracker of the cost of drugs that may be illegal.