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1 <br /> <br />Memorandum of Agreement <br />Law Enforcement Naloxone Program <br />This Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) is entered into by and between Orange County on <br />behalf of the Orange County Emergency Services (“County”) and the Town of Hillsborough <br />Police Department (“Town”) for the purpose of establishing a Law Enforcement Naloxone <br />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 death 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 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 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 as set out in the “Law <br />Enforcement Agency Credentialing Guidelines for EMS Interventions with Orange County”; and <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: 44752550-6BF5-43FE-80F8-9064F42F59BC