Opinion: Delay in making naloxone an over-the-counter drug to counter opioid overdoses was deadly [Opinion]
that it had concluded that “certain naloxone products have the potential to be safe and effective” as over-the-counter drugs, which have uniform prices and are much cheaper and less subject to regulation than prescription drugs under the complex system in place in the U.S. Then, the day after Christmas, The Wall Street Journalthat Harm Reduction Therapeutics — a pharmaceutical nonprofit — could win final FDA approval by late April for a naloxone nasal spray that would cost about $18 a dose.
That would be less than 10 percent of the typical cost for the drug paid by those without health insurance. A RAND study last yearThe drug approval process should not be precipitous, but that concern doesn’t apply here. The FDA gave its blessing to naloxone’s use as a treatment for overdoses. Its extreme efficacy was documented long before the opioid epidemic began.
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