The one medication that will save 25,000 lives each year | Leana Wen | TEDxMidAtlantic
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- In Baltimore City, where Dr. Leana Wen serves as Health Commissioner, more people died from overdose last year than died from homicide. Dr. Wen has declared opioid abuse a public health emergency, and has led the charge to expand the use of naloxone, also called Narcan, that completely reverses the effect of an overdose. Dr. Wen speaks about this medication’s potential to combat America’s overdose epidemic. Her message is simple: nobody should die from an entirely treatable ailment; we should all be able to save a life.
Dr. Leana Wen is the Baltimore City Health Commissioner. An emergency physician and patient and community advocate, she leads the oldest health department in the United States, formed in 1793, with an annual budget of $130 million and over 1,000 employees. Dr. Wen has been a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, a Clinical Fellow at Harvard, and a consultant with the World Health Organization and the Brookings Institution.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
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Love this!! Thanks for sharing 👍👍 I know it's older video but this is very important and I am so glad there are doctor's like you out there.. thank you for doing what you do ✌️♥️✌️
Thank you Oliver for saving me when I overdosed. I love you brother
My sister died because a Dr in my small town was sick of giving narcan to people who overdosed, so the week he decided to stop she died left 2 young kids,
Narcan is very effective antidote for opioid overdoses. But I feel as though people are misunderstanding the drug. This will ONLY work with an opioid overdose. An overdose of anything else being treated with Narcan will simply have no effect and the patient may die. If this medication becomes open to the public it needs to made very clear that this is will only reverse these kinds of overdoses. With that being said, I am in support of Narcan being available for public use. Whether they overdose because they are addicted to drugs and have an accidental overdose, or because they are depressed and are overdosing as a means of suicide they are doing because of a mental health disorder. Just because they have depression or an addiction does not mean that their life isn't worth saving. They have a serious disease and need treatment for their mental health condition. People with addiction can get better and people with depression and suicidal tendencies can get better. Dr. Wen is right, the stigma with drug addiction needs to be done away with in order to better address this issue. Narcan can save lives and there is no ethical, plausible reason for it not to be legal.
Some people will purposefully use this as an excuse to take as much drugs as they want because they know if they accidentally overdose that someone will be able to reverse their overdose with Naloxone. I think that prevalence of overdoses will increase in response to Naloxone becoming widely available while mortality from overdoses may or may not decrease. So a reason to not allow for it to be sold widely would be to keep the prevalence of overdoses down and I think that that is a good enough reason to keep it out of the general public's hands.
There have been articles published recently about recovering drug addicts commenting on this topic specifically. From what I've read, they've said that "why would anyone want to get high to the point where they have to take Narcan and immediately sober up?" It's basically a wasted high to them. The bigger picture to me would be having them readily available in public places much like an AED, where good Samaritans can take actions to reverse a drug overdose. There has been no evidence to suggest yet that making Narcan available without a prescription will increase drug use or drug overdoses.
Great and true speech Dr. Wen. Thank you. A Hero in Healthcare industry. A Great person indeed. True speech is bitter but is so true. Much humans had lost its conscience.
I'm sorry are you saying that it's a waste to try and save a junkys life....did you not hear who these junkys are...white,. Middel aged women.
Goodness; I would give my Soul, if I could have saved my Son.
Everyone needs to see this
DEAR LORD!!!! Can’t people go straight to the subject????? I am almost over with more than a half of this video and all of it could be summarised in one phrase!
This is why I stopped watching Ted Talks.
People like Dr Wen.
This is an interesting topic and makes me want to look more into it. When Leana Wen compared the rate of overdosing to the rate of suicide, homicide, and car accidents it makes me question more about the use of naloxone. She also states that by treating people for overdose with naloxone, that it will save a life. However, how will people be able to go to their physician and tell them that they are basically an addict and that they need an prescription for naloxone, so that they won't overdose. In my defense, I just don't see an physician giving this prescription out to patients just because they are stating that they have an addiction, wouldn't they have to prove it so how to their doctor? Because their is an small possibility that the patient could get addicted to naloxone.
hi Shanice, you can't get addicted to Naloxone. Naloxone does nothing for the non opioid user.
+Kellie Quan Then the physician caused drug addict will turn to something else that will get them high. Drug addicts are more resourceful than the physicians.
FDA needs to make this readily available.
Just like Hydroxychloroquine.
Naloxone trained 😊
this should be as wallet as it should be worldwide
Keren
Since when does Dr. Wen care about saving lives?
Psychedelics are definitely anti-addiction drugs, and can drastically increase mental health, just read any science article about them. Most of them are benign on the brain and body, but there is one called ibogaine, which has harsher effects, but which actually neutralizes withdrawals and greatly enhances standard addiction therapies by manifold.
Need more studys done...
The second one - the auto injector (evzio) costs today $ 3.700.- for 2 injectors!!
Hello Hayfire2 - is that $3.70 or $37.00? Just clarifying. Thanks!
+Kellie Quan Almost four thousands US Dollars. US $3780. Three thousand US $3000 , seven hundred US $700 and Eighty US $80. It can be slightly lower and slightly higher.
NOT less than US $50.
+Kellie Quan How stupid are you getting the number incorrect. Reading not taught at your school. Or are you trying to be funny about physician caused drug addictions? Not funny at all.
please don't say love
John Sarno is the bible of chronic pain ,not Opium
Anyone see the irony here? We have this drug that will save you from that drug. Is everyone on drugs?
This is USA ,Im 63 and in my life i maybe seen 10 who take opioids
maybe she was thinking about our prison population
Bravo... Dr Wen.....
She has been wrong about everything on COVID. She belongs in prison.
It's always interesting to hear people say, "I don't want my tax dollars going to helping junkies (live). They're a bane to society! Contribute nothing good!"I like to draw the parallel of sports. Sport injuries and death are rampant in highschools, colleges, and professional leagues. They don't contribute really anything useful to society except maybe philanthropic ventures but those exist without sports. Personally I don't like watching sports but I know others who do and I wouldn't begrudge them their entertainment but why should my tax dollars go toward medicine to help athletes? Aren't they a bane to society?
Chicom🇨🇳Filth
Is she talking about Covid?
DAMN GOOD JOB. SHE DOES THIS SPEECH USE. WELL, GETS THE POINT ACROSS, AND SHE IS FUNNY AS WELL. SHE HAD HER FACTS TO A T.
where did thisi dr come up with african americans being 60 plus percent of our population???????
Once again, if you were paying attention she was referring to baltimore.
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Closing Planned unParenthood could potentially save 300,000 lives a year.
Mathilde Young me too💜😔