House Passes Bill Designed to Make It Easier to Respond to Opioid Overdoses

Joe Solomon, co-director of Charleston-based Solutions Oriented Addiction Response, holds a dose of the opioid overdose reversal drug Narcan at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Charleston in Charleston, W.Va., Tuesday Sept. 6, 2022. He and other organizers were preparing for the third annual “Save a Life” day event on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, where thousands of doses of Narcan were distributed throughout all of West Virginia’s 55 counties. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham)

(MISSOURINET) – Legislation that would remove restrictions on who can administer naloxone (nuh-LOCKS-own), or Narcan, to someone that’s overdosed is moving forward. The Missouri House on Tuesday passed the bill that would remove the requirement that state and local law officers and staff must be under the supervision of a medical director or licensed ambulance service in order to administer the overdose-reversing drug. It’s sponsored by State Rep. Brenda Shields of St. Joseph: