Tuesday, October 10, 2017
City Signs Exclusive Deal With Pharmaceutical Firm for Anti-Overdose Drug
The city and state announced Monday that they entered into an exclusive one-year deal with the makers of an anti-overdose drug to quicken the time it takes to get the medication into the hands of first responders.
The city has allocated about $7.836 million through various agencies to buy the drug naloxone this year, while the state Department of Health will kick in $7 million.
The one-year agreement with Adapt Pharma, producer of Narcan, does away with the piecemeal process of dealing with different distributors to get naloxone and creates a central ordering system that can get the drug to them in as little as a day. . .