FDA Fast-Tracks Overdose Drug Naloxone for Use Without Prescription

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FDA Fast-Tracks Overdose Drug Naloxone for Use Without Prescription
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A pharmaceutical nonprofit was granted priority review from the FDA to make an inexpensive overdose-reversal drug for use without a prescription

A pharmaceutical nonprofit was granted priority review from the Food and Drug Administration to make an inexpensiveHarm Reduction Therapeutics Inc.

said its 3 milligram nasal spray naloxone formulation, called Rivive, had three times higher concentration in the blood of 36 participants than naloxone delivered as a shot. The company said Monday that the FDA gave it a target approval date of April 28. The FDA declined to comment.

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