In Arizona, families and businesses are spending too much on prescription drugs.

While Americans dealt with a pandemic, Big Pharma continued to hike prices on hundreds of drugs. Even worse, drug companies used sneaky sales tricks to encourage doctors to overprescribe dangerous opioids. The prices of drugs are set by drug manufacturers.

Arizona tried to shine a light on drug company price hikes but almost all companies are skirting new laws that demand drug companies explain these unsustainable increases.