If the medication works the way Robey thinks it will, it would give addicted patients a reprieve.
For years the focus has been on the opioid crisis, with the rise in use and overdose deaths linked to fentanyl, but in recent years methamphetamine has made a comeback and is also linked to rising overdose deaths. But unlike fentanyl and other highly addictive opiates, which have Methadone and Sub Oxone as treatment options, there has never really been a good option to treat meth addiction.
“This treatment is an innovative way to try to buy people some time away from the effects of methamphetamine,” said Robey. “It works in the same way that we might treat snake bites, or other sorts of toxic congestions,” said Robey.“This antibody stays in the bloodstream for a long time. The half-life is 19 days, which means that in 19 days, half of the drug is still present in the bloodstream. And that results in a long term effectiveness that could stretch out for more than a month,” explained Robey.“I’m super excited about this particular agent because methamphetamine addiction is a disease of chaos.
“There doesn’t go a day where someone needs to be sedated because they’re psychotic because of methamphetamine in our emergency department in Everett,” he added. The study is small – just 40 people nationally about a dozen so far here in Everett. The downside is this is not anything that’s expected to be on the market wide anytime soon.
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