| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | Naloxon
USA. The US Faces a Naloxone Shortage at the Worst Possible Time
USA. The US Faces a Naloxone Shortage at the Worst Possible Time
Life expectancy in the United States plunged by a year and a half in 2020, the worst year-on-year change since World War II. Drug overdoses were the second-most influential factor, behind the obvious: COVID-19. Fatal overdoses reached their highest recorded levels last year: 93,000. The surge continues into 2021 and is dovetailing with an unfathomable related crisis: a national shortage of naloxone, the “antidote” to opioid overdose. (Filter Magazine, USA, 29.07.2021)