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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) 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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