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<br />DocuSign Envelope ID: 08AFB9FB-32BD-447D-B42B-4AB1F7D87A61 <br />Memorandum of Understanding <br />Law Enforcement Naloxone Program <br /> <br />This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is entered into by and on behalf of the Orange <br />County Emergency Services Department Emergency Services) and the Orange County <br />Office Officefor the purpose of establishing a Law Enforcement <br />Naloxone program. <br />Whereas the North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics found that since 1999, the <br />number of death by drug overdoses has increased by 300%; and <br />Whereas these drug overdose deaths could be preventable with training and access to an <br />opioid antagonist drug; and <br />Whereas in April 2013 the North Carolina General Assembly enacted N.C. Gen. Stat. <br />§ 90-106.2 which provided immunity from civil and criminal liability for physicians who, acting <br />in good faith and exercising reasonable care by standing order, prescribe an opioid antagonist to <br />persons at risk of experiencing an opiate-related overdose; and <br />Whereas N.C. Gen Stat. § 143-517 provides that the County shall ensure that Emergency <br />Medical Services are provided to its citizens and has done so by creating an Emergency Medical <br />oversight of the EMS System. <br />Whereas N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-514 provides that the North Carolina Medical Board shall <br />determine the scope of practice for credentialed emergency medical services personnel by <br />establishing the medical skills and medications that may be used by credentialed emergency <br />medical services personnel at each level of patient care; and <br />opioid , by N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-514(a), as naloxone <br />hydrochloride that is approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of <br />; and <br />Whereas the North Carolina Medical Board has indicated o <br />enforcement agencies, are allowed to administer the Narcotic Antagonist prescription drug <br /> <br />Whereas the medical director has defined the scope of practice for EMS personnel <br />functioning within the Orange County EMS System to include First Responders, including law <br />enforcement agencies, who meet certain defined requirements <br />; and <br />Whereas the County desires to enter into this Memorandum of Understanding with the <br />to establish a Law Enforcement Naloxone Program in which law enforcement <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />