The Committee on Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs proposes the following amendment (LC-407.WAB0005H):
Amend the bill, as and if amended, SECTION 1, Section 44-53-361(A), by adding an item to read:
(1) This subsection does not apply in the following circumstances:
(a)patients who are receiving care for cancer or a cancer-related condition, patients in hospice, patients receiving palliative care; or
(b)any other patients who, in the prescriber's good faith medical judgment, would not benefit from a prescription for naloxone hydrochloride or another drug approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for the complete or partial reversal of opioid-related respiratory and/or central nervous system depression.