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U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams has urged more Americans to carry the opioid overdose reversal treatment naloxone, known under brand names such as Narcan and Evzio. However, the drug and its delivery systems have become more expensive in recent years:
As opioid-related deaths have continued to climb, naloxone, a drug that can reverse overdoses, has become an important part of the public health response. When people overdosing struggle to breathe, naloxone can restore normal breathing and save their lives. But the drug has to be given quickly.
On Thursday, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams issued an advisory that encouraged more people to routinely carry naloxone. "The call to action is to recognize if you're at risk," he tells Morning Edition's Rachel Martin. "And if you or a loved one are at risk, keep within reach, know how to use naloxone."
[...] The medicine is now available at retail pharmacies in most states without a prescription. Between 2013 and 2015, researchers found a tenfold increase in naloxone sold by retail pharmacies in the U.S. But prices have increased along with demand. Naloxone-filled syringes that used to cost $6 apiece now cost $30 and up. A two-pack of naloxone nasal spray can cost $135 or more. And a two-pack of automatic naloxone injectors runs more than $3,700. And while it's true that naloxone can prevent many opioid-related deaths, it doesn't solve the root cause of the problem.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Saturday April 07 2018, @03:22AM (2 children)
They don't want your damn support. When will you get this through your head!!?
They routinely and repeatedly refuse treatment, they know they are heading toward the grave, and all they want is to make sure they have enough drugs for the final journey.
Only 20% of heroin addicts seek treatment, (usually at the insistence of others or the legal system) and of those the relapse rate is usually over 91 percent.
https://drugabuse.com/library/heroin-relapse/ [drugabuse.com]
You are delusional if you believe they want your "support".
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Saturday April 07 2018, @03:34AM (1 child)
I know that most of them die, and most of them are not well integrated with society while they are on their way out.
In the circles I travel, I don't interact with the ones on their way down - I do know several who have made it back from the pit and 10+ years later are still clean.
For the ones who want to check out, I actually support that - give them the option for help, and the help to not conflict with the rest of the world on their way out if they choose to keep using. I was just passing through, but in the 1990s the Zurich train station park [swissinfo.ch] seemed like a place where that was happening, and I think there are many similar things that still go on in Europe. It seems like a much better approach than Miami where you have transvestite prostitutes with an average life expectancy of less than a year working Biscayne Boulevard in the evenings, and breaking into whatever they can during the day for money to score with.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 07 2018, @07:48PM
I want to know who pays for the treatment of people that couldn't afford treatment? Do we need another tax cut to get that funded?