US FDA Expects No Change In Naloxone Access Barrier If Prices High For Potential OTC Products

The Food and Drug Administration and the head of non-profit firm Harm Reduction Therapeutics Inc. developing a proposal for OTC naloxone intranasal spray agree that consumers could pay more out-of-pocket for a nonprescription product than they do in co-pays required in their insurance plans.

HRT co-founder and CEO Michael Hufford is confident, though, that consumers’ out-of-pocket costs for the OTC naloxone product the firm is proposing won’t be an impediment to expanding access to the drug