I found a very interesting article on The Texas Tribune today. In the article "The Brief: Officials neglect grant application for anti-overdose drug" the Texas Tribune talks a little about how there was a gravely missed opportunity to get a $1 million dollar grant to purchase an anti-overdose drug called Naloxone simply because they did not apply for it.
This to me is a horrible mistake, this drug could have saved so many lives, not only for those doing drugs but those seeking to commit suicide and the fact that our own government didn't even try to make this a priority and tried to hide it from the public is appalling, to say the least. Recently the price to purchase the drug has gone up significantly and this grant could have helped in purchasing so much more without worry, but now most likely it will become a rare commodity drug because the price has been marked up significantly. I think that this should not be something that happens in my government, something as simple as applying should not be the reason a grant was not given to the state, if a grant is not given after applying there is nothing to be done, but when you haven't even gone past trying to get it, that is something that should not be accepted under any circumstance. Now, who knows how many people will overdose simply because an application wasn't put through or because this grant was not made known to the public before hand.
What do you think? Should someone be punished for this, maybe the Attorney General? Should this grant have been made public a long time ago?
This to me is a horrible mistake, this drug could have saved so many lives, not only for those doing drugs but those seeking to commit suicide and the fact that our own government didn't even try to make this a priority and tried to hide it from the public is appalling, to say the least. Recently the price to purchase the drug has gone up significantly and this grant could have helped in purchasing so much more without worry, but now most likely it will become a rare commodity drug because the price has been marked up significantly. I think that this should not be something that happens in my government, something as simple as applying should not be the reason a grant was not given to the state, if a grant is not given after applying there is nothing to be done, but when you haven't even gone past trying to get it, that is something that should not be accepted under any circumstance. Now, who knows how many people will overdose simply because an application wasn't put through or because this grant was not made known to the public before hand.
What do you think? Should someone be punished for this, maybe the Attorney General? Should this grant have been made public a long time ago?
