Naloxone nasal spray, known by the brand name Narcan, is used to temporarily reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. The FDA might make it available over the counter this year.
From the editorial: In 2018, aware that public health strategies were failing, Surgeon General Jerome Adams took the ... step of saying that naloxone ... should become ubiquitous in everyday life.
Keith Ellison is seeking his second consecutive term as Minnesota's top law enforcement officer while Republican challenger Jim Schultz seeks to break a five decade-long DFL reign in the attorney general’s office.
"We know that reckless, profit-driven dispensing practices fueled the crisis; but ... with better systems in place and proper heeding of red flag warnings, pharmacies can play a direct role in reducing opioid abuse and in saving lives."
Spencer Troy Sternhagen, 34, of Emmons, was sentenced Aug. 4 in Renville County District Court to 107 months on prison on first-degree drug possession. He was convicted of breaking into a pharmacy in Renville and stealing more than 1,000 pills of prescription medications.
Minnesota has reached several other settlements with opioid companies over the last two and a half years that have brought the state hundreds of millions of dollars.
Summary: Ignoring the warnings will not make the virus go away. It keeps getting fitter and more transmissible, while our human qualities of fatigue and complacency feed right into the virus’s remarkable opportunism.
