U.S. health advisers are weighing whether the overdose-reversal drug naloxone should be made available as an over-the-counter medication
FILE - Attendees practice administering Narcan during an overdose education and Narcan training class at the Onala Recovery Center on the South Shore of Pittsburgh on Monday, Dec. 13, 2021. U.S. health advisers are weighing whether the overdose-reversal drug, Narcan, should be made available as an over-the-counter medication to help fight the national opioid crisis. A panel of experts to the Food and Drug Administration will vote on the switch late Wednesday, Feb.
Moving naloxone, which is also available in various injectable versions, over the counter is the latest government effort to increase use of a medication thatin the battle against a U.S. overdose epidemic that kills more than 100,000 people annually. The decades-old drug can counteract the effects of an opioid overdose in minutes.
Community advocates and organizations that support making naloxone widely available welcomed the possible approval of an over-the-counter version, but still had concerns. Narcan manufacturer Emergent Biosolutions presented results from a 70-person study designed to show that people of various ages and backgrounds could correctly use the drug on someone having an overdose. About a third of people in the study had low reading ability, a key concern for the FDA.
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