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Pharma Tech Outlook | Wednesday, October 27, 2021
ZIMHI, a high dose naloxone medication for treating drug overdose, gets approval from FDA for treating opioid overdoses.
Fremont, CA:Drug overdoses have resulted in roughly 96,779 deaths in the United States for the 12 months ending March 2021, according to numbers published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a 29 percent increase over the previous 12-month period. Drug overdoses are now the top cause of death among Americans under the age of 50, with the most powerful synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl and its equivalents, accounting for the majority of these deaths. Adamis Pharmaceuticals Corporation's Adamis ZIMHI (naloxone HCL Injection, USP) 5 mg/0.5 mL medication has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). FDA-approved for the treatment of opioid overdose, ZIMHI is a high-dose naloxone injectable medication. Naloxone is an opioid antagonist and is widely regarded as the medicine of choice for treating opioid overdoses in the short term. It acts by obstructing or reversing the opioid's effects, such as excessive sleepiness, decreased breathing, and loss of consciousness.
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Dr. Jeffrey Galinkin, an anesthesiologist, and former member of the FDA Advisory Committee for Anesthetics, Analgesics and Addiction Products, commented, “I am pleased to see this much needed high dose naloxone product will become part of the treatment tool kit as a countermeasure to the continued surge in fentanyl related deaths. The higher intramuscular doses of naloxone in ZIMHI should result in more rapid and higher levels of naloxone in the systemic circulation, which in turn, should result in more successful resuscitations.”
Dr. Dennis J. Carlo, President, and CEO of Adamis, stated, "We are very excited by this approval and are working with our commercial partner, US WorldMeds, to make this much-needed, lifesaving product readily available to the market. ZIMHI provides the highest systemic levels of naloxone compared to any of the nasal or intramuscular products currently available."
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