Archived Massive Price Hike for Lifesaving Opioid Overdose Antidote (scientificamerican.com)
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Archived Massive Price Hike for Lifesaving Opioid Overdose Antidote (scientificamerican.com)
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[–] dontforgetaboutevil 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
This is why capitalism needs to be removed from medicine. Frankly the militant left would impress me a lot more if they started taking out people like this instead of.. well.. whatever it is the hell they are doing now.
[–] swinston79 ago
Good fuck junkies let them die.
[–] james780 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
so more junkies will die...
[–] derram 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
https://archive.is/8R8QM | https://vgy.me/h09kvl.png :
'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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