Posted on 11/30/2017 8:40:45 PM PST by Olog-hai
U.S. health officials on Thursday approved the first injectable form of the leading medication to treat patients recovering from addiction to heroin, prescription painkillers and other opioids.
The Food and Drug Administration approved once-a-month Sublocade for adults with opioid use disorder who are already stabilized on addiction medication.
The monthly injection has the potential to reduce dangerous relapses that occur when patients stop taking the currently available daily medication. But that benefit has not yet been shown in studies and the new drug comes with a hefty price: $1,580 per monthly dose. The older version of the drug, Suboxone, costs $100 a month. …
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Can't solve the problem at the source. Nope, too easy to just fortify the border, wipe out the cartels with strategic airstrikes, and end the Drug War.
The UK is going to make Viagra over-the-counter.
The progress happening somewhere!
America’s government insiders and oligarchs can even make big money on opiate addiction
I get it that people are addicted, and that for many their addiction is because of drug pushers with medical degrees. That stinks. But the solution to it has to lie within the addicts themselves. These "solutions" seem to be causing addictions to the so-called cure.
Thanks Olog-hai. The success of Vivitrol ($1800 a shot, once a month) probably helped usher in this development. Even meth cooking has moved south of the border, in the failed state of Mexico. Building our Wall would be of graat benefit to us, and of even greater benefit to Mexico.
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