Current through the 2024 Fourth Special Session
Section 26B-4-510 - Standing prescription drug orders for an opiate antagonist(1) Notwithstanding Title 58, Chapter 17b, Pharmacy Practice Act, a person licensed under Title 58, Chapter 17b, Pharmacy Practice Act, to dispense an opiate antagonist may dispense the opiate antagonist: (a) pursuant to a standing prescription drug order made in accordance with Subsection (2); and(b) without any other prescription drug order from a person licensed to prescribe an opiate antagonist.(2) A physician who is licensed to prescribe an opiate antagonist, including a physician acting in the physician's capacity as an employee of the department, or a medical director of a local health department, as defined in Section 26B-4-512, may issue a standing prescription drug order authorizing the dispensing of the opiate antagonist under Subsection (1) in accordance with a protocol that: (a) limits dispensing of the opiate antagonist to: (i) an individual who is at increased risk of experiencing an opiate-related drug overdose event;(ii) a family member of, friend of, or other person, including a person described in Subsections 26B-4-512(1)(a)(i)(A) through (1)(a)(i)(F), that is in a position to assist an individual who is at increased risk of experiencing an opiate-related drug overdose event; or(iii) an overdose outreach provider for:(A) furnishing to an individual who is at increased risk of experiencing an opiate-related drug overdose event, or to a family member of, friend of, or other individual who is in a position to assist an individual who is at increased risk of experiencing an opiate-related drug overdose event, as provided in Section 26B-4-511; or(B) administering to an individual experiencing an opiate-related drug overdose event;(b) requires the physician to specify the persons, by professional license number, authorized to dispense the opiate antagonist;(c) requires the physician to review at least annually the dispensing practices of those authorized by the physician to dispense the opiate antagonist;(d) requires those authorized by the physician to dispense the opiate antagonist to make and retain a record of each person to whom the opiate antagonist is dispensed, which shall include: (i) the name of the person;(ii) the drug dispensed; and(iii) other relevant information; and(e) is approved by the Division of Professional Licensing within the Department of Commerce by administrative rule made in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act.Renumbered from § 26-55-105 and amended by Chapter 307, 2023 General Session ,§ 145, eff. 5/3/2023.Amended by Chapter 415, 2022 General Session ,§ 18, eff. 5/4/2022.Amended by Chapter 207, 2016 General Session ,§ 14, eff. 5/10/2016.Amended by Chapter 207, 2016 General Session ,§ 4, eff. 5/10/2016.