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Lawmakers expand immunity language and advance measure to broaden access to opioid reversal medications
Summary
LB195, which updates state statute to allow a broader set of opioid overdose reversal medications (including generics) under the state standing order, advanced after committee amendments; sponsors said the change will increase access to life‑saving drugs.
Senator Amanda Meyer introduced LB195 to broaden Nebraska’s standing‑order authority for opioid overdose reversal medications, replacing brand‑specific statutory language to allow additional, medically equivalent products to be used in emergency reversal of opioid overdoses.
Meyer told colleagues that expanding the statutory language is intended to increase access to less…
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