Posted on 02/15/2023 7:10:31 PM PST by Olog-hai
The overdose-reversing drug naloxone should be made available over the counter to aid the national response to the opioid crisis, U.S. health advisers said Wednesday.
The panel of Food and Drug Administration experts voted unanimously in favor of the switch after a full day of presentations and discussions centered on whether untrained users would be able to safely and effectively use the nasal spray in emergency situations.
The positive vote, which is not binding, came despite concerns from some panel members about the drug’s instructions and packaging, which caused confusion among some people in a company study. The manufacturer, Emergent Biosolutions, said it would revise the packaging and labeling to address those concerns. The FDA will make a final decision on the drug in coming weeks. […]
Narcan is already available without a prescription in all 50 states, where state leaders have issued standing orders for pharmacists to sell the drug to anyone who asks for it. But not all pharmacies carry it and those that do must keep it behind the counter. Also, the stigma of opioids can discourage people from asking for the drug. …
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Sure....let’s address the symptoms, and, never the cause.
What next? Gumball machines with Narcan on every corner?
Leftist mentality.
You can get ivermectin from vending machines in Mexico.
Amazing the priorities of those that make the decisions.
I bet the gubmint will require the price be zero $.
Gotta keep on making life easy for people who repeatedly make STUPID choices.
The retail costs of Narcan is ~$40.00 a dose. My guess is that most junkies would rather spend that forty bucks on junk.
Even with that, making Narcan more widely and easily available would save lives, at least until the next time they overdose.
Is that due to intestinal worms being prevalent? Zika (cone head) infections? Or just for miscellaneous viruses and cancers?
That was my reaction.
“Now do Ivermectin and HCQ.”
As a first responder, as a prepper, as someone who just likes to be prepared, this is a good thing. Narcan should be part of every first aid kit, given that anyone could be exposed to fentanyl, just exposure to someone else who has the dust on their clothes is enough to cause reaction. Narcan is expensive now, and making it over the counter will help reduce that cost.
I don’t doubt that.
I’d just like to see SOME kind of effort in stopping the prolific spread of these killer drugs....that cause the need for narcan.
A clever chemist might be able to convert the substance to a recreational drug.
Bassturd Politicians making sure the little people continue using those “recreational drugs” to keep the Mexican cartels in business.
Personally, I think they should make opiods over-the-counter. Clean out the riff-raff.
Correcting the text that the U.S. health advisers messed up.
You are both right. There are potential positives to making Narcan OC. Seems to me it would also give junkies a sense that there were no longer consequences of overdosing thereby encouraging more use and bigger doses.
In any case someone has to be conscious enough to administer the antidote.
As I understand it Narcan is a brand name of naloxone, and naltrexone is time-release naloxone. Low dose naloxone has been off-label prescribed for autoimmune disease for years. Most autoimmune disease happens because ingested opioid from foods attach to cell endorphin receptors. The immune system recognizes the opioids as a pathogen attack. It attacks the opioids and the affected tissue. the reason for the immune system’s confusion is digestive bacterial mimicry.
Low dose naltrexone is effective at making the immune system ignore the opioid attack. I only hope this means that Narcan can be titrated to the same end.
Cities where that is de facto the case are like zombie movies come to life.
I was running low on BP medicine in Dubai and walked into a pharmacy to get a refill. The pharmacist asked what I needed and I told her, she just handed them to me. I asked if she needed to see the prescription on the old bottles and she said nope, no need. They're not going to give you morphine without a prescription, but most drugs you just tell them what you want and pay for it. That's the way it should be but in the U.S. we have to treat everyone like children because God forbid somebody might be able to receive medical care without jumping through a ton of hoops and everybody getting their cut of the money.
The want to make it “Over the Counter”, because right now it’s available over the counter.
I think they want to have it in the isles so it’s easier to steal.
Dubai’s health care is subsidized, and “free” for Emirati nationals; there is no free market health care there so everyone at the top is getting “their cut” no matter what. Our free market share, such as it was, is almost kaput. Is that what you want for the USA?
but I have to sign my name and show my license to get a stinking sudafed...
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