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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: 2, Insightful) by frojack on Saturday April 07 2018, @03:07AM (7 children)
You have no idea how true this is.
Seattle TV stations featured an interview with a heroin user encouraging people to carry naxolone pens because he overdosed 6 times in in one year and his girl friend (also a drug user) saved him 4 of those times. They will go right back to it.
Seattle is turning into the heroine capital of the west coast.
Another fine example of the Its your body, and you should be allowed to put anything into it mentality.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday April 07 2018, @03:27AM
I was under the impression that it was already there 15 years ago.
While many addicts are indeed lost causes, there are also many who recover - I don't personally know any who died, but I do know at least 5 who were in deep and got out, including a former NFL player who washes/details cars for a living now, he used to wash my wife's car every so often for 3 years until we moved, including the back seat where our 3 and 5 year olds sat and snacked during 8+ hour road trips, cheerful guy with a real positive attitude.
I take that back about the dead addict thing, I didn't know him personally, but this one guy drifted back to his girlfriend in my neighborhood and started breaking into cars on the street - stole my self-recorded cassette collection. After about 2 weeks in town, he broke into a cop's car in his driveway and got himself gunned down, 6 rounds in the back, dropped on another cop's front lawn 2 doors down. That went down in the city of Miami, with a North Miami cop shooter, and landed in the lawn of a Metro Dade SWAT officer, so we literally had 30 cars, 10 from each agency investigating from 3:30am until after 9am. The story goes that the addict threw a brick through the shooter's window, thereby threatening his safety, so he had to shoot him down as he ran away 100'+ from the point the brick would have been thrown. He got 30 days off with pay for that story.
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(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 07 2018, @03:47AM (2 children)
You can pretty much burn in hell.
The reason why you find that there are people who keep doing it over and over again is a lack of proper medical care. Nothing is being done to give these people a reason to kick the habit and very little is provided in terms of help with quitting.
Shockingly, after probably having lost just about everything, these people struggle to quit the only thing that's keeping them going. Drugs are addictive and without real treatment programs and support, it's unrealistic to expect people to quit. Being almost killed is a motivator, but if there isn't something to live for, it's not a very long term strategy and if you're entire life has gone to shit, it can be exceedingly difficult to maintain the strength and determination necessary to clean up.
Especially, if you've lost all your friends and the things that people generally agree make life living.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 07 2018, @05:19AM (1 child)
It's also unrealistic to expect society to be supportive when people get in trouble out of selfishness. Everyone knows that taking hard drugs is like selling your soul to the devil.
(Score: 5, Touché) by TheRaven on Saturday April 07 2018, @03:16PM
And for a lot of drug addicts, even knowing that it didn't seem like a worse option than experiencing their lives without chemical assistance. Society might consider how they got into this situation in the first place before branding them selfish.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Whoever on Saturday April 07 2018, @05:43AM
So you don't count yourself amongst the Libertarians on SoylentNews then?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 07 2018, @07:06AM (1 child)
So, you have some sort of "inadequacy" issue with heroines? WonderWoman is coming to lasso you with her lasso of truth, and spank you with the lies of your mother, and order you to inject the antidote to the killer placebo of the evil alt-right SPECTRE organization. And, you will like it. If not, more bondage and spankings. Beatings will continue until moral improves, it's a Royal Navy thing.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday April 07 2018, @01:13PM
Personally, I wouldn't mind a little attention from Wonder Woman of that sort...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...