Current through 2024 First Special Session
Section 16-46-3 - Licensed health care providers may prescribe opioid antagonists to initial responders and certain individuals; required educational materials; limited liability(a) All licensed health care providers in the course of their professional practice may offer to initial responders a prescription for opioid antagonists, including a standing order, to be used during the course of their professional duties as initial responders.(b) All licensed health care providers in the course of their professional practice may offer to a person considered by the licensed health care provider to be at risk of experiencing an opiate-related overdose, or to a relative, friend, caregiver or person in a position to assist a person at risk of experiencing an opiate-related overdose, a prescription for an opioid antagonist.(c) All licensed health care providers who prescribe an opioid antagonist under this section shall provide educational materials to any person or entity receiving such a prescription on opiate-related overdose prevention and treatment programs, as well as materials on administering the prescribed opioid antagonist.Amended by 2016 Acts, ch. 205 (SB 431), eff. 6/10/2016.Added by 2015 Acts, ch. 127 (SB 335), eff. 5/27/2015.