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Newspaper Page TextHEALTH/SCIENCE The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com Thursday, December 20, 2018 7A Government urges doctors to write more overdose antidote Rx MARY ALTAFFER I Associated Press A Narcan nasal device which delivers naloxone lies on a counter as a health educator gives instructions on how to administer it, Tuesday, July 3, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. FDA reacts to rising opioid death toll BY CARLA K. JOHNSON Associated Press The U.S. government told doctors Wednesday to con sider prescribing medica tions that reverse overdoses to many more patients who take opioid painkillers in a move that could add more than $1 billion in health care costs. Assistant Secretary for Health Brett Giroir, a doc tor appointed by President Donald Trump, announced the guidance, saying it’s important for doctors to dis cuss overdose dangers with patients. Prescribing naloxone such as Narcan along with opioids forces a conver sation that will lead to “a more informed decision by the patient,” he said. The action comes a day after a close vote from a Food and Drug Administra tion expert panel endorsing the idea of rewriting opioid drug labels to include a naloxone recommendation for many or all patients. An FDA document said such a move could add more than $1 billion in health care costs. “Even at a billion, it would be an investment that is well worth it,” Giroir said. More than 47,600 Ameri cans died of opioid over doses last year, a toll that has been rising for two decades. The street drug fentanyl is the top killer today, but prescription painkillers are still a prob lem, contributing to nearly 15,000 overdose deaths last year. The street drug fentanyl is the top killer today, but prescription painkillers are still a problem, contributing to nearly 15,000 overdose deaths last year. Naloxone comes in a nasal spray, an injection and an automatic injector. The Narcan nasal spray costs about $125 for a two- dose kit, although govern ment programs can get it for less. The automatic injector can cost as much as $4,000 per kit, although its maker recently authorized a cheaper generic version. Critics said prescribing the antidote to pain patients does not address the grow ing share of fatal overdoses caused by illicit opioids, and could cause shortages for programs that hand out the kits to street drug users. It “will have the unin tended consequence of derailing efforts to provide naloxone to the very effec tive community programs we know are successful in saving lives,” said Dr. Raeford E. Brown Jr., who heads an expert panel advising the FDA. The new guidance tells doctors to consider pre scribing the antidote to patients on high doses of opioids, heavy drinkers, people with sleep apnea and other breathing prob lems, people taking benzo diazepines such as Xanax and people with addiction or mental health problems. It expands upon a similar recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In April, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams issued the office’s first national public health advi sory in 13 years, calling on more Americans to start carrying naloxone and urg ing more federal money to be dedicated to broadening access. Most states allow people to get naloxone from a pharmacy or community program under a statewide prescription and some states require doctors to also prescribe naloxone to patients on high doses of opioids. The FDA is working toward an over-the-counter version of naloxone. Brown said the govern ment should use its emer gency authority to buy and distribute large quantities of naloxone and imme diately make it available over the counter. Trump directed the health agency to declare the opioid crisis a public health emergency last year. “That’s the difference between declaring a public health emergency and actu ally acting as if there’s a public health emergency,” Brown said. US adults aren’t getting taller, just a little heavier BY MIKE ST0BBE Associated Press A closeup of a beam scale, April 3, in New York. NEW YORK-You don’t need to hang the mistletoe higher but you might want to skip the holiday cookies. A new report released Thursday shows U.S. adults aren’t getting any taller but they are still getting fatter. The average U.S. adult is overweight and just a few pounds from obese, thanks to average weight increases in all groups — but particularly whites and Hispanics. Overall, the average height for men actually fell very slightly over the past decade. There was no change for women. One factor may be the shift in the country’s popula tion. There’s a growing num ber of Mexican-Americans, and that group tends to be a little shorter, said one of the report’s authors, Cynthia Ogden of the Centers for Dis ease Control and Prevention. The findings come from a 2015-16 health survey that measures height and weight. More than 5,000 U.S. adults took part. CDC records date back to the 1960s, when the average man was a little over 5 feet, 8 inches tall and weighed 166 pounds. Now, men are almost 1 inch taller and more than 30 pounds heavier. But today’s average height of 5 feet, 9 inches is about a tenth of an inch shorter than a decade ago. The average woman in the early 1960s was 5 feet, 3 inches and 140 pounds. Now, women are a half-inch taller and about 30 pounds heavier, on average. The average height is about the same as it was a decade earlier: 5 feet, 4 inches. Other survey findings: ■ In the last decade, the average weight of men rose about 2 pounds, to 198. For women, it rose 6 pounds, to nearly 171. ■ Men have 40-inch waist- PATRICK SISON I Associated Press lines, on average. Women’s waistlines are a little under 39 inches. ■ The average height of black men and white men has been holding about steady, at a little under 5 feet 10. ■ Mexican-American and Asian-American men are roughly 3 inches shorter than whites and blacks, on average. There was a similar height gap in women. ■ In 2016, about 18 per cent of the nation’s popula tion was Hispanic, up from about 13 percent in 2000, according to U.S. Census figures. Mexican-Americans account for nearly two-thirds of the Hispanic population. 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