Sec. 17a-714a. Treatment of drug overdose with opioid antagonist. Immunity.
Sec. 17a-714a. Treatment of drug overdose with opioid antagonist. Immunity.
A licensed health care professional who is permitted by law to prescribe an opioid
antagonist may, if acting with reasonable care, prescribe, dispense or administer an
opioid antagonist to a drug user in need of such intervention without being liable for
damages to such person in a civil action or subject to criminal prosecution. For purposes
of this section, "opioid antagonist" means naloxone hydrochloride or any other similarly
acting and equally safe drug approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for
the treatment of drug overdose.
(P.A. 03-159, S. 2.)