03-30-18 Naloxone & Sara Gideon
Part 1: Joe, Bill, Tim and Ray discuss Narcan and Naloxone and the new bill submitted by Speaker of the Maine House Sara Gideon. She submitted LD 1892, An Act To Clarify the Prescribing and Dispensing of Naloxone Hydrochloride by Pharmacists, which will allow for people under the age of 21 to have access to the life-saving drug Narcan.
Part 2: They boys go to Sara Gideon website. She says on her website that after an unexplained six-month delay, the Board of Pharmacy finally took action on proposed rules related to the original legislation, LD 1594, An Act Regarding the Dispensing of Naloxone Hydrochloride by Pharmacists. She is not representing that facts and the people signing the bill into law.