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[–] CaractacusPotts 5 points 1 year ago

The study comes as pharmaceutical companies continue to market expensive high-dose formulations of naloxone, arguing that amid record drug death levels resulting from potent synthetic opioids like fentanyl, it’s essential to deliver as much of the overdose-reversal medication as possible. Public health experts and harm-reduction groups have pushed back, however, charging that the companies have used Americans’ fear of fentanyl as an excuse to sell needlessly expensive naloxone products to cash-strapped public health agencies.