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Utah Code Title 26B. Utah Health and Human Services Codes § 26B-4-510. Standing prescription drug orders for an opiate antagonist

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(1) Notwithstanding Title 58, Chapter 17b, Pharmacy Practice Act, a person licensed under Title 58, Chapter 17b, Pharmacy Practice Act, to dispense an opiate antagonist may dispense the opiate antagonist:

(a) pursuant to a standing prescription drug order made in accordance with Subsection (2); and

(b) without any other prescription drug order from a person licensed to prescribe an opiate antagonist.

(2) A physician who is licensed to prescribe an opiate antagonist, including a physician acting in the physician's capacity as an employee of the department, or a medical director of a local health department, as defined in Section 26B-4-512, may issue a standing prescription drug order authorizing the dispensing of the opiate antagonist under Subsection (1) in accordance with a protocol that:

(a) limits dispensing of the opiate antagonist to:

(i) an individual who is at increased risk of experiencing an opiate-related drug overdose event;

(ii) a family member of, friend of, or other person, including a person described in Subsections 26B-4-512(1)(a)(i)(A) through (1)(a)(i)(F), that is in a position to assist an individual who is at increased risk of experiencing an opiate-related drug overdose event; or

(iii) an overdose outreach provider for:

(A) furnishing to an individual who is at increased risk of experiencing an opiate-related drug overdose event, or to a family member of, friend of, or other individual who is in a position to assist an individual who is at increased risk of experiencing an opiate-related drug overdose event, as provided in Section 26B-4-511; or

(B) administering to an individual experiencing an opiate-related drug overdose event;

(b) requires the physician to specify the persons, by professional license number, authorized to dispense the opiate antagonist;

(c) requires the physician to review at least annually the dispensing practices of those authorized by the physician to dispense the opiate antagonist;

(d) requires those authorized by the physician to dispense the opiate antagonist to make and retain a record of each person to whom the opiate antagonist is dispensed, which shall include:

(i) the name of the person;

(ii) the drug dispensed; and

(iii) other relevant information; and

(e) is approved by the Division of Professional Licensing within the Department of Commerce by administrative rule made in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act.

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