BALTIMORE — Joined by harm-reduction advocates, local musicians performed outside a Baltimore drug manufacturing facility Wednesday afternoon to protest the price of the overdose-reversing drug Narcan sold by pharmaceutical company Emergent BioSolutions.
Demonstrators parked a flatbed truck adorned with signs demanding broader access to Narcan outside the Carroll-Camden Industrial Area plant on Paca Street, where three bands played loud go-go and punk music for a little over two hours.
Since acquiring Adapt Pharma in 2018, Gaithersburg-based Emergent BioSolutions has produced the nasal spray version of naloxone, a medication designed to reverse an opioid overdose.
