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Thank you for your leadership on this @eff
I wonder how will this impact recovery coaches, sponsors, or the +20 million people in long-term recovery.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/your-messaging-service-should-not-be-dea-informant
A new U.S. Senate bill would require private messaging services, social media companies, and even cloud providers to report their users to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) if they find out about certain illegal drug sales. This would lead to inaccurate reports and turn messaging services into government informants.
curious - we're thinking about looking into addiction stigma, misinfo on AI models (Bing, BARD, midjourney, etc) - preliminary analysis found some (predictable) problems.
BUT this feels like free labor for people with billions of dollars that should have considered these harms when developing models. I still think it's important to show how they are causing this harm though..?
thoughts? @caseynewton et al
What is a reasonable price for a medication that costs ~5cents with a plastic delivery system? Maybe $5-10 for OTC. MAYBE! I recognize that even $5 is a lot for many people, but it might be a reasonable number for states and is much closer to the generic injectable price.
I would *love it to be free* but do know as long as pharma is making it *there will be a profit motive.*
We need to decouple the opioid response from profiteering companies.
It's being reported that Narcan is are floating $50 for the OTC product....
Try again Narcan.
I don't see anything in Narcan media statement about the *actual price* of OTC Narcan. Just lots of hand wavy stuff about how great they are and how hard they are working to come up with a price. Because it's so hard to thread the needle between profiteering and access.
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@STAT
Let's dial back our expectations of OTC naloxone (they are not grounded in reality) and start leaning into solutions (admittedly, big swings but insulin pricing debate has shown us sometimes we need sticks or the threat of sticks, not just carrots) that will impact access for people who need naloxone most.
We need to do more to get medicines into the bodies of people who need it. The federal gov't needs to help make that happen. OTC naloxone won't.
Interested in folks thoughts about our new op-ed with Mishka Terplan in @STAT
I have been chewing on the march-in rights for the opioid crisis since Jul 2020. This space has had so much profiteering and other ugly pharma behavior that has gone under the radar. There is a book worth of stuff.
So thankful I had the opportunity to work with Mishka and STAT to bring this from rattling around my head to print.
https://www.statnews.com/2023/04/17/otc-narcan-naloxone-price-availability/
This is interesting:
https://www.the-sun.com/sport/7869916/phillies-star-matt-strahm-outraged-over-new-beer-rules/
Glad someone spoke up!
Admittedly, I haven't been watching much baseball with my Tigers looking rough (yes, a fair-weather far for a fair-weather sport), but this highlights the transparent drive to put profits before safety.
We do this all the time with alcohol (home delivery of alcohol, low taxes on alcohol, etc) good to call it out for what it is. Hypocrisy and harmful.
PHILADELPHIA Phillies pitcher Matt Strahm does not favor the new beer-selling rules at MLB ballparks. The 31-year-old is upset at a few MLB teams for deciding to extend their beer sales into the 8t…
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