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5,39 <br /> Es <br /> Memorandum of Agreement <br /> Law Enforcement Naloxone Program <br /> This Memorandum of Agreement(MOA)is entered into by and between Orange County on behalf <br /> of the Orange County Emergency Services ("County") and The University of North Carolina at <br /> Chapel Hill, for its Police Department ("the University") for the purpose of establishing a Law <br /> Enforcement 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. § 90- <br /> 106.2 which provided immunity from civil and criminal liability for physicians who, acting in <br /> 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 /> Services ("EMS") System that has a defined scope of practice and a medical director to provide <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 /> Whereas "opioid antagonist" is defined, 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 /> a drug overdose"; and <br /> Whereas the North Carolina Medical Board has indicated on the their list of"Approved <br /> Medications for Credentialed EMS Personnel" that First Responder agencies, including law <br /> enforcement agencies, are allowed to administer the Narcotic Antagonist prescription drug <br /> "Naloxone"under specific requirements; and <br /> Whereas the Orange County Medical Director has defined the scope of practice for EMS <br /> personnel functioning within the Orange County EMS System to include First Responders, <br /> including law enforcement agencies,who meet certain defined requirements as set out in the"Law <br /> Enforcement Agency Credentialing Guidelines for EMS Interventions with Orange County"; and <br /> Whereas the County desires to enter into this Memorandum of Understanding with the <br /> University to establish a Law Enforcement Naloxone Program in which law enforcement officers <br /> administer the opioid antagonist drug to persons who they in good faith reasonable believe to be <br /> experiencing a drug-related overdose and they take reasonable care in doing so; and <br /> 100091610.DOCX 4}1 <br /> Rev. 6/16 <br />