Naloxone, available as a nasal spray and in an injectable form, is a key tool in the battle against a nationwide overdose crisis. But it’s still often frustratingly inaccessible in the moments when overdoses happen.
In a 2021 report, public health experts convened by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health listed expanding naloxone access as the first strategy for using settlement funds, noting that 40% of overdose deaths happen when someone else is present and possibly able to administer the life-saving drug.As with other harm-reduction strategies, there’s been pushback from those who believe making naloxone available enables drug use.
Officials in every state have given standing orders to pharmacies allowing people to buy it, even without prescriptions. “There was no way I would spend $10 for something to save my life when I needed that money to buy drugs,” he said.In Alabama, for instance, a pharmacist, physician or public health nurse must be involved in the distribution. But the state does have a program to mail the antidote to anyone who requests it.
“All I actually care about is what has the probability of saving the most lives the fastest,” Dwyer said. Ron Stewart, an emergency preparedness planner for Adair County, which includes Kirksville, said it provides naloxone only to first responders now, but he’s hopeful a state program will soon make it available to the public, too.In 2022, she handed out more than 1,800 doses — far more than the public health district for Southwest Georgia, which gave out 280 doses to people who showed up at health department offices in an isolated corner of Albany and to community organizations.
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