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Witnesses urge Ohio to require hospitals to give naloxone at discharge after overdose
Summary
Medical and addiction specialists testified in favor of Senate Bill 137, which would require hospitals to provide naloxone at discharge to patients who presented with opioid-related symptoms and seek reimbursement from insurers and Medicaid; committee held a hearing and took testimony.
Emergency medicine physicians and addiction specialists told the Ohio Senate Health Committee that Senate Bill 137 would save lives by ensuring at-risk patients leave hospitals with the opioid reversal drug naloxone.
Dr. Michael McCray, past president of the Ohio chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians, recounted an emergency department case on Christmas Eve 2015 in which a 22-year-old died after overdosing while family members were briefly away. ‘‘She did not have naloxone,’’ McCray said, adding that the case led him to champion naloxone…
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