Massive Price Hike for Lifesaving Opioid Overdose Antidote - Scientific American
'In communities particularly hard-hit by drug overdoses, places such as schools, libraries and coffee shops are keeping the antidote on hand. '
'Called Evzio, it is used to deliver naloxone, a life-saving antidote to overdoses of opioids. '
'First came Martin Shkreli, the brash young pharmaceutical entrepreneur who raised the price for an AIDS treatment by 5,000 percent. '
'And, he said, since the price increase, more patients have gotten Evzio prescriptions filled—so the cost doesn’t seem to be stopping them. '
'Their budgets are larger right now, so they’re less price sensitive, said Nicholson Price, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan Law School. '
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'In communities particularly hard-hit by drug overdoses, places such as schools, libraries and coffee shops are keeping the antidote on hand. '
'Called Evzio, it is used to deliver naloxone, a life-saving antidote to overdoses of opioids. '
'First came Martin Shkreli, the brash young pharmaceutical entrepreneur who raised the price for an AIDS treatment by 5,000 percent. '
'And, he said, since the price increase, more patients have gotten Evzio prescriptions filled—so the cost doesn’t seem to be stopping them. '
'Their budgets are larger right now, so they’re less price sensitive, said Nicholson Price, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan Law School. '
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