Orlando turns Narcan up to 11, HM cries foul

In the epic film This is Spinal Tap, the filmmaker notices the band’s amplifiers go past 10 to 11. He asks why and they answer, “Well, it’s louder, isn’t it?”

This appears to be the thought behind a new FDA approved medication called Kloxxado, a name HM totally didn’t make up on the spot. Kloxxado, aside from having 2 x’s in it, is simply…wait for it…Nalaxone in a higher dose. A non profit in, of all places, Florida is giving this out to local businesses to combat the opioid crisis. Klaxxado is an 8mg intra nasal dose of Nalaxone, or “Narcan.” So, essentially, what this program is doing is taking a questionably useful application of an extremely useful medication and doubling it. Narcan is available in a 4mg nasal spray, this new drug is 8mg.

HM asserts this is foolishness since we are already dumping 12+mg of Naloxone on OD patients without applying positive pressure ventilation (you know, breathing for them, their actual problem) and this simply makes no sense. However, in true HM style, he waits until the very end to say he hopes he’s wrong.

This week, we cover:

• How turning up the dosage won’t help if it isn’t applied properly
• That the number of cops passing out from fentanyl hysteria seems to have decreased
• This program is geared towards downtown clubs and restaurants, not the homeless
• That HM believes Nalaxone should be aerosolized in some neighborhoods

BOLO:

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