Overdoses due to fentanyl and its analogues (F/FAs) push naloxone to the limit.


Journal

Journal of clinical pharmacy and therapeutics
ISSN: 1365-2710
Titre abrégé: J Clin Pharm Ther
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8704308

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Dec 2021
Historique:
received: 19 05 2021
accepted: 22 05 2021
pubmed: 11 6 2021
medline: 5 2 2022
entrez: 10 6 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) risk evaluation and mitigation strategies (REMs) encourage emergency responders, paramedics, law enforcement agents, and even laypeople to be trained in the administration of naloxone with the intent of rescuing individuals from a known or suspected opioid overdose. Although naloxone is generally safe and effective at reversing respiratory depression caused by a conventional opioid such as morphine or heroin by competing with the opioid and displacing it from the μ-opioid receptor, questions increasingly are arising as to whether naloxone can adequately reverse opioid overdoses that may involve the potent opioids fentanyl and its analogues (F/FAs). In other words, as more and more opioid overdoses involve F/FAs, can naloxone keep up? As a competitive antagonist at μ-opioid receptors, naloxone is often a life-saving agent in cases of overdose caused by conventional opioids, but it may not be versatile or powerful enough to combat the rising tide of overdoses due to fentanyl and its illicit analogues, or in cases of overdose involving combinations of opioids and non-opioids.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34111307
doi: 10.1111/jcpt.13462
doi:

Substances chimiques

Narcotic Antagonists 0
Receptors, Opioid, mu 0
Naloxone 36B82AMQ7N
Heroin 70D95007SX
Fentanyl UF599785JZ

Types de publication

Journal Article Review

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

1501-1504

Informations de copyright

© 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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Auteurs

Joseph V Pergolizzi (JV)

NEMA Research Inc, Naples, FL, USA.
Neumentum Inc, Summit, NJ, USA.
Enalare Therapeutics Inc, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Albert Dahan (A)

Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Jo Ann LeQuang (J)

NEMA Research Inc, Naples, FL, USA.

Robert B Raffa (RB)

Neumentum Inc, Summit, NJ, USA.
Enalare Therapeutics Inc, Princeton, NJ, USA.
College of Pharmacy (Adjunct), University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Temple University School of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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