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Sponsor seeks mandated Narcan distribution to people leaving correctional treatment programs
Summary
Representative Kate Donahue and colleagues asked the committee to support H4123, a bill to require correctional facilities to distribute naloxone (Narcan) to people discharged from treatment or incarceration, citing elevated overdose risk after release.
Representative Kate Donahue told the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security that House Bill 4,123 would require Department of Correction and county facilities to provide naloxone, also known as Narcan, to individuals discharged from substance-use disorder treatment or correctional custody.
Donahue said research shows people recently released from…
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