First Ready-to-Use Needle-Free Nasal Spray Treats Opioid Overdose Emgergency
Dublin, Ireland -- November 19, 2015 – Adapt Pharma Limited (www.adaptpharma.com) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved NARCAN® (naloxone hydrochloride) Nasal Spray for the emergency treatment of known or suspected opioid overdose. For multimedia content, please visit http://inr.synapticdigital.com/adaptpharma/NARCAN/
For more than 40 years, naloxone has been trusted by healthcare providers for reversing the effects of opioid overdose, but until today, it was FDA approved only as an injection.
NARCAN Nasal Spray, a ready-to-use, needle-free device, delivers a 4 mg dose of naloxone in a single 0.1 ml nasal spray. NARCAN Nasal Spray requires no assembly or priming prior to use. Adapt Pharma is committed to affordable and transparent pricing of NARCAN Nasal Spray. Group purchasers, such as law enforcement, fire fighters, first responders, departments of health, local school districts, colleges and universities, and community-based organizations that order directly from Adapt Pharma, are eligible for a discounted Public Interest Price of $37.50 per 4mg NARCAN Nasal Spray device ($75 for a carton containing 2 devices of NARCAN Nasal Spray 4mg).
We are delighted to have reached agreement with the Clinton Health Matters Initiative, an initiative of the Clinton Foundation, our first partner in establishing this discounted Public Interest Price approach. "The Clinton Health Matters Initiative is committed to efforts to reduce opioid overdose deaths, including by making naloxone more widely available," said Rain Henderson, CEO of the Clinton Health Matters Initiative, an initiative of the Clinton Foundation. "We believe that the partnership and pricing agreement with Adapt will assist us in helping organizations across the United States to save lives by making naloxone more affordable and accessible for those who need it most."
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