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MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH <br />March 27, 2013 <br /> <br />Page 4 of 5 <br /> <br /> <br />Board of Health Minutes Transcription completed by Lisa Smith March 27, 2013 <br /> Assist clinicians in identifying and referring for treatment patients misusing <br />controlled substances. <br /> Reduce the cost for law enforcement investigating cases of diversion and <br />misuse. <br /> Inform the public, including health care professionals, of the use and abuse <br />trends related to prescription drugs <br /> <br />SB20: Good Samaritan Law – in good faith and with reasonable care <br /> <br /> Naloxone component <br /> -- Permits practitioners to prescribe, dispense or distribute directly or as a <br />standing order naloxone to persons at risk of OD or a family member, friend <br /> -- Permits a person who received an opioid antagonist (Naloxone/Narcan) <br />under the terms outlined above to administer that antagonist to another person <br /> -- Provides immunity from civil and criminal liability for the practitioner and <br />administrator <br /> <br /> 911 component <br />-- Provides limited protection from prosecution for any person who seeks <br />medical assistance … for a person experiencing a drug-related overdose and/or any <br />person who has a drug-related overdose and/or any person who has a drug-related <br />overdose who is need of medical assistance if the evidence for the prosecution was <br />obtained as a result of the seeking of medical assistance. <br />Endorsements of community-based distribution of naloxone <br /> NC Board of Medicine <br /> CDC <br /> AMA <br /> ONDCP <br /> SAMSHA <br /> 15 states in the US <br /> Enabling legislation in many states underway <br /> Harm Reduction Coalitions <br /> Project Lazarus <br /> <br />See attached presentation <br /> <br />B. National Nutrition Month