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The Next Naloxone? Companies, Academics Search for Better Overdose-Reversal Drugs

April 25, 2018 by ATForum

“Dr. Nora Volkow has heard a frightening scenario play out around the country. People are administering naloxone to synthetic opioid drug users who have overdosed. But the antidote doesn’t work well. So they give another dose. And it’s only after multiple doses — four, five, even six times — that drug users finally come to their senses.

Naloxone is the only widely available drug to reverse opioid overdoses. But anecdotal reports of its limitations against synthetic opioids are on the rise. Spurred by that public health threat — as well as a booming commercial market for the antidote — drug companies, researchers, and health officials are eagerly eyeing the development of new treatments to augment the use of naloxone or, in some cases, potentially replace it.

“The strategies we’ve done in the past for reversing overdoses may not be sufficient,” Volkow, director of the National Institute for Drug Abuse, said in a recent speech at the 2018 National Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit. “We need to develop alternatives solutions to reversing overdoses.”

Read more at: https://www.statnews.com/2018/04/10/next-naloxone-overdose-reversal-drugs/

Source: StatNews.com – April 10, 2018

See related article on overdose deaths: Study: Despite decline in prescriptions, opioid deaths skyrocketing due to heroin and synthetic drugs is available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/04/10/study-despite-decline-in-prescriptions-opioid-deaths-skyrocketing-due-to-heroin-and-synthetic-drugs/

See related article on overdose deaths: How France Cut Heroin Overdoses by 79 Percent in 4 Years available at: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/04/how-france-reduced-heroin-overdoses-by-79-in-four-years/558023/

See related article on overdose deaths: In opioid epidemic, some cities strain to afford OD antidote available at: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-04-opioid-epidemic-cities-strain-od.html

Filed Under: 2018, News Updates

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