FDA clears the way to increase access and lower cost of life-saving opioid overdose treatment drug

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The FDA's change clears the way for drugmakers to sell naloxone without a prescription. The life-saving treatment for opioids is also known as Narcan and Evzio.

 

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This is fairly misleading angelicalavito - You forgot to mention in your article that the auto-injectable and the nasal spray that the FDA wrote these labels for are both under patent unless the companies that own these patents want OTC. So there's that 'small' barrier.

Let me see if I understand. A life-saving drug is only available by prescription because it's label is too complicated?!? And changing said label will allow for OTC and lower costs? Lives are being lost due to a label?

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