The Rising Price of Naloxone - Risks to Efforts to Stem Overdose Deaths

N Engl J Med. 2016 Dec 8;375(23):2213-2215. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp1609578.

Authors

Ravi Gupta¹, Nilay D Shah¹, Joseph S Ross¹

Affiliation

¹ From Yale University School of Medicine (R.G., J.S.R.), the Department of Health Policy and Management, Yale University School of Public Health (J.S.R.), and the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital (J.S.R.) - all in New Haven, CT; and the Division of Health Care Policy and Research and Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (N.D.S.).

PMID: 27959694
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1609578

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Analgesics, Opioid / poisoning
Drug Costs
Drug Overdose / drug therapy*
Drug Overdose / mortality
Heroin / poisoning
Humans
Legislation, Drug
Naloxone / administration & dosage
Naloxone / economics*
Narcotic Antagonists / administration & dosage
Narcotic Antagonists / economics*
Prescription Fees / trends*
State Government
United States

Substances

Analgesics, Opioid
Narcotic Antagonists
Naloxone
Heroin