Pharmaceutical history - September 30th




Jack Fishman(September 30, 1930 – December 7, 2013) was a Jewish American pharmaceutical researcher from Kraków, Poland. In 1961, along with Mozes J. Lewenstein, he developed the medication naloxone. Naloxone saved countless people from fatal overdoses of heroin and other narcotics. Naloxone was patented in 1961 by the company Sankyo. It was approved for opioid abuse treatment in 1971 by the FDA with opioid abuse kits being distributed by many states to medically untrained people beginning in 1996. From the period of 1996 to 2014, the CDC estimates over 26,000 cases of opioid overdose have been reversed using the kits.

He died on Dec. 7 at his home in Remsenburg, N.Y. He was 83.
-Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naloxone#History
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