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To: Nextrush

Narcan
Skyrocketing cost


16 posted on 05/11/2017 3:29:26 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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silverleaf :" Narcan
Skyrocketing cost"

www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/news/20161207/rising-price-of-opioid-od-antidote-could-cost-lives-study#1

Report dated : Dec. 7, 2016

"The research team called attention to skyrocketing prices for the lifesaving antidote, noting:

Hospira (a Pfizer Inc. company) charges $142 for a 10-pack of naloxone -- up 129 percent since 2012.
Amphastar's 1 milligram version of naloxone is used off-label as a nasal spray.
It's priced around $40 -- a 95 percent increase since September 2014.
Newer, easier-to-use formulations are even more expensive -- a two-dose package of Evzio (naloxone) costs $4,500, an increase of more than 500 percent over two years."
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www.businessinsider.com/price-of-naloxone-narcan-skyrocketing-2016-7
In a Report Dated :Aug. 1, 2016
A popular injectable version of the drug has gone from $0.92 a dose to more than $15 a dose over the last decade.
An auto-injector version is up to more than $2,000 a dose.

36 posted on 05/11/2017 6:26:00 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (Muslim & Spanish migrants are like Kudzu--> designed to overload the system= Cloward-Piven)
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