Signed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that authorizes the distribution of opioid antagonists used to treat opioid overdoses.

Highlights:

• Authorizes the Chief Medical Officer in the Department of Health and Human Services to issue a standing order, that does not identify any patients, for all of the following purposes (Sec. 1, Pg. 1):

• For a pharmacist to dispense opioid antagonists (overdose treatment drugs) to an individual; and

• For a community-based organization or staff member to distribute opioid antagonists to an individual.

• Authorizes pharmacists and community-based organizations to provide opioid antagonists to an individual in accordance with the above-issued standing order (Sec. 1, Pg. 1).

• Specifies that community-based organization means any public or private organization that provides health and human services to meet the needs of a community (Sec. 1, Pg. 2).

• Specifies that neither pharmacists nor community-based organizations and the Chief Medical Officer are liable for a civil action as a result of damages caused by the dispensing or administering of an opioid antagonist (Sec. 1, Pgs. 1 & 2).

• Authorizes the Department of health and Human Services to adopt rules for the enforcement of this act in consultation with local departments of health (Sec. 1, Pg. 2).

• Specifies that this act takes immediately upon passage and approval (Sec. 1, Pg. 2).

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