HealthDay (1/31, Preidt) reported, “Allowing pharmacists to provide the opioid overdose” medicine “naloxone without a prescription led to a huge increase in dispensing of the lifesaving” medication “in Ohio,” researchers concluded. After state legislators “gave that permission in 2015,” researchers found “a 2,328% increase in naloxone dispensing” since then. In addition, the study revealed that “counties with low-employment rates had 18% more naloxone dispensed per month than high-employment counties.” The findings were published online Jan. 31 in JAMA Network Open.
Related Links:
— “When Pharmacists Allowed to Give Anti-Opioid Med Without Rx, Access Soars, ” Robert Preidt, HealthDay, January 31, 2020