Gerald
06-24-18, 08:54 AM
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In Baltimore, the health commissioner, Dr. Leana Wen (https://health.baltimorecity.gov/commissioner), uses a need-based algorithm to decide which emergency rooms, needle-exchange vans, E.M.T.s and opioid outreach workers receive the city’s limited supply of naloxone — and which don’t. The drug, which reverses overdoses, has saved some 14,000 Baltimore residents (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/one-easy-cost-free-thing-trump-can-do-to-ease-the-opioid-crisis/2018/06/11/16165efa-69a9-11e8-9e38-24e693b38637_story.html?utm_term=.fcb602ff310c) since 2015. But its price has increased in recent years, by between 95 and 500 percent (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1609578), depending on which version of the medication is being considered. Even with donations (https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/18/kaleo-evzio-donations-near-expiration/) and discounts from drug makers, Dr. Wen says the city can’t afford all the naloxone it needs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/opinion/prescription-drug-costs-naloxone-opioids.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2 Fopinion-editorials
This problem must be regulated by authorities that will create conditions for those abusers who use drugs daily.
In Baltimore, the health commissioner, Dr. Leana Wen (https://health.baltimorecity.gov/commissioner), uses a need-based algorithm to decide which emergency rooms, needle-exchange vans, E.M.T.s and opioid outreach workers receive the city’s limited supply of naloxone — and which don’t. The drug, which reverses overdoses, has saved some 14,000 Baltimore residents (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/one-easy-cost-free-thing-trump-can-do-to-ease-the-opioid-crisis/2018/06/11/16165efa-69a9-11e8-9e38-24e693b38637_story.html?utm_term=.fcb602ff310c) since 2015. But its price has increased in recent years, by between 95 and 500 percent (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1609578), depending on which version of the medication is being considered. Even with donations (https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/18/kaleo-evzio-donations-near-expiration/) and discounts from drug makers, Dr. Wen says the city can’t afford all the naloxone it needs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/opinion/prescription-drug-costs-naloxone-opioids.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2 Fopinion-editorials
This problem must be regulated by authorities that will create conditions for those abusers who use drugs daily.