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Researchers at Penn State have conducted a series of studies to quantify the cost of the opioid crisis This is the first comprehensive tally, looking at crime, Medicaid and loss of work State Medicaid programs spent at least $72 billion due to opioid misuse from 1999 to 2013 States may have lost nearly $12 billion in tax revenue from 2000 to 2016 due to lost work  In Pennsylvania, from 2007 to…