Early in August, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a sixth medication for reversing opioid overdoses. The product, call Zurnai, is an automatic injection of the drug nalmefene, produced by Purdue Pharma – the same pharmaceutical company that helped fuel the opioid crisis.
Irony aside, this is – at least at face value – a welcome addition to the growing arsenal of medications meant to combat the opioid crisis. Nalmefene is stronger and has a longer duration than its more common counterpart naloxone, which has become less effective against an…
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