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Naloxone is an opioid antagonist used to treat narcotic overdoses. Naloxone works by reversing the detrimental effects of the opioid, including slowed breathing, brain dysfunction, loss of consciousness and death. Common opioids include morphine, heroin, tramadol, oxycodone, hydrocodone and fentanyl. Rapid resuscitation of an opioid overdose with naloxone, an opioid antagonist, is critical as opioid induced toxicity results in rapid death, i.e., delaying adequate resuscitation can result in death. Accordingly, the current approved naloxone doses (2 mg intramuscular (IM) and 4 mg intranasal (IN)), since they both give similar systemic exposure levels, might very well not be sufficient to reverse high doses of fentanyl. Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is considered 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine. According to the
The manuscript describes an opioid receptor quantitative systems pharmacology (QSP) model which was developed to predict the effects of different IM doses of naloxone ( 2 mg, 5 mg, and 10 mg) in response to different levels of fentanyl exposure (low, medium, and high). The model defined a successful reversal as lowering the amount of opioid bound to the brain receptors to less than 50% within 10 minutes. For the lowest and middle levels of fentanyl exposure, the model predicted that the 2 mg IM naloxone resulted in successful resuscitations within ten minutes, but more rapid reversal was observed with the 5 and 10 mg doses. However, at the highest level of naloxone exposure, the model predicted that the 2 mg IM (and 4 mg IN) doses of naloxone did not result in a successful reversal. In contrast, the 5 and 10 mg doses of naloxone successfully reversed opioid toxicity.
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