text: One sickening aspect of this situation is the price of naloxone.  a decade and a half ago a vial of it cost $1.10.  As opiate use took off over the past decade or so, drug manufacturers have responded by deciding to "cash-in", and have jacked up prices by about 1,000 percent.  An auto-injector 2 pack that might be prescribed to a family member wanting to save a loved ones life now costs over $4,500.  It's disgusting and sickening that pharmaceutical manufacturers, legislators and we, as a society, allow that kind of profiteering, and then sit and wonder why medical costs are skyrocketing.  Especially when the current administration's response to high health care costs is to bump 20 million people off of the insurance rolls.