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Senate Health Committee hears testimony on bill to require hospitals to provide naloxone at discharge
Summary
Proponents told the Senate Health Committee that Senate Bill 137 would make naloxone distribution from emergency departments standard practice statewide to reduce opioid overdose deaths, citing data that many prescriptions go unfilled.
The Senate Health Committee heard proponent testimony on Senate Bill 137, which would require hospitals to provide an overdose-reversal drug, naloxone, to patients discharged from emergency departments when they presented with signs of opioid overdose or opioid use disorder.
Supporters told the committee the change would cut barriers that leave at-risk patients without life-saving medication. Dr. Michael McCray, a past president of the Ohio chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians, described a patient death that shaped his position: "It was this case that changed…
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