Opioid Safety and Naloxone Network Buyers Club: Restoring Naloxone

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Dasgupta, Nabarun
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4098-605X
- Affiliation: Injury Prevention Research Center
- Other Affiliation: Gillings School of Global Public Health
Doe-Simkins, Maya
- Other Affiliation: OSNN Buyers Club
Wheeler, Eliza
- Other Affiliation: OSNN Buyers Club

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The collective purchasing organization, Opioid Safety and Naloxone Network (OSNN) Buyers Club, provides over half of all community-based naloxone distributed in the country and is able to do so at a 30x lower cost than retail nasal spray. But, dwindling supply of the overdose reversal antidote is currently forcing community-based programs to heavily ration. The projected shortfall for 2021 is 1 million naloxone doses. We estimate 12,000 to 18,000 avoidance overdose deaths. In this white paper, we provide a summary about the OSNN Buyers Club purchasing patterns and the estimated toll of the naloxone shortage.

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