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Minnesota lags in access to opiate OD antidote
Posted Jul 9, 2012
Media Outlet:
Minnesota Public Radio
An assessment of Minnesota's laws on Narcan, an antidote to drug overdoses, by Temple University found that programs that distribute Narcan to ordinary people without a prescription "would be legally vulnerable." Scott Burris, of Temple’s Beasley School of Law, said programs that allow laypeople to distribute Narcan to addicts falls into a legal gray area.