Everett ER patients join study for new meth treatment drug that offers hope for combating addiction FOX13
is one of the larger hot spots for meth addiction in the nation. Doctors say it's an everyday problem in the emergency room in Everett, with patients coming in who are suffering from meth addition and a host of associated impacts.
The ER at Providence serves as a type of safety net for the community, a place where doctors like Robey regularly encounter people struggling with addiction and drug-related issues. At Providence, he's helping to facilitate a study on a new treatment for meth addiction. As part of the study, doctors are recruiting 40 people nationally, including several from the Everett area, as part of a national effort to get the drug approved by the FDA.
"It’s like the COVID antibodies you’ve heard about that bind the COVID molecule and COVID virus, and/or bind the spike protein on the COVID virus and dismantle it," said Brooks Gentry, Chief Medical Officer, InterveXion Therapeutics. "In this situation, our medicine keeps meth from exerting its effects on the brain. It keeps the patient from getting high," said Brooks Gentry, Chief Medical Officer with InterveXion Therapeutics. "Or if they are toxic, we think in the situation of meth OD, it will reduce some of the toxic effects by removing it from its sites of action in the brain."
"It doesn’t take away all the effects of the meth, what it does is it helps stabilize your thinking, it helps stabilize your life such that you can maybe go out and get your ID, maybe you can get your housing voucher," said Dr. Robey. Dr. Robey also hopes that Everett can lead the way in providing ground-breaking treatments like that to folks that might not have access to it otherwise.
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