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Amazon’s ongoing campaign into the multibillion dollar healthcare industry entered its newest phase today with the announcement of Amazon Clinic, the company’s own telehealth service. Per an official statement posted this morning, Amazon Clinic is already available in 32 states, and can connect consumers with medical professionals via a secure, message-based virtual care portal to facilitate treatment for over 20 common conditions and needs such as acne, asthma, dandruff, urinary tract infections, seasonal allergies, as well as birth control.

To utilize the service, customers choose from a list of issues, then select a preferred provider before completing an intake survey. They are then directly connected with a telehealth official via a private messaging service. Afterwards, Amazon Clinic can have any necessary prescriptions called in to patients’ pharmacy of choice, or through the Amazon Pharmacy program first launched in November 2020. Pharmacy costs will be determined and paid through customers’ existing healthcare plans. A quick survey of initial available telehealth options range between $30 and $42, excluding any additional prescription payments.

Earlier this month, retail pharmacies CVS and Walgreens announced that they reached tentative agreements to pay about $5 billion each to settle thousands of lawsuits related to their role in the nation’s opioid crisis. Yesterday, Walmart announced their framework for settling $3.1 billion in lawsuits for their role in the epidemic.

Currently, there are more than 3,000 lawsuits against opioid manufacturers, distributors, and retail pharmacies accusing them for downplaying the risk of addiction and not stopping the pills from spreading illegally.

An autoinjector containing naloxone was first approved by the FDA in 2014 (Evzio) and a single-dose nasal spray (NARCAN) was green lit in 2015. A large study found that opioid overdose deaths decreased by 14 percent in states after they enacted naloxone access laws.

In 2017, the opioid crisis was declared a public health emergency and the Department of Health and Human Services Department has renewed the declaration every 90 days since.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), deaths from opioid overdoses have increased 65 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic. Deaths increased from 47,000 in 2019 to almost 78,000 in 2021. Additionally, over half a million people have died since 1999 from prescription opioids, he**in, and fentanyl.