The $4,500 injection to stop heroin overdoses

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First came Martin Shkreli, the brash young pharmaceutical entrepreneur who raised the price for an AIDS treatment by 5,000 percent. Then, Heather Bresch, the CEO of Mylan, who oversaw the price hike for its signature EpiPen to more than $600 for a twin-pack, though its active ingredient costs pennies by comparison.

Now a small company in Richmond called Kaleo Pharma is joining their ranks. It makes an injector device that is suddenly in demand because of the nation’s epidemic use of opioids, a class of drugs that includes heavy painkillers and heroin.

Called Evzio, it is used to deliver naloxone, a life-saving antidote to overdoses of opioids. More than 33,000 people are said to have died from such overdoses in 2015. And as demand for Kaleo’s product has grown, the privately held firm has raised its twin-pack price to $4,500, from $690 in 2014.

Founded by twin brothers Eric and Evan Edwards, 36, the company first sought to develop an EpiPen competitor, thanks to their own food allergies. Now, they’ve taken that model and marketed it for a major public health crisis. It’s another auto-injector that delivers an inexpensive medicine.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/the-4500-injection-to-stop-heroin-overdoses/2017/01/27/becaaca4-dcf6-11e6-ad42-f3375f271c9c_story.html?utm_term=.c136511b124e&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1#comments

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1. Located in "The Bottom" as its called. 804-565-6360

https://kaleopharma.com/

[Calculating]

2. We need more of this in our society

The kleptocrats and elites that run our society won't stop until they bleed us dry and we're all living in shanty towns outside their walled off cities of luxury.

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3. Most people will not have sympathy for heroin addicts.

Sad but true. This will NOT be viewed in the same light as an epi pen

[Warpy]

4. It's also unnecessary to inject naloxone

A nice, cheap nasal spray will work just as well and quite probably faster.