2023 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 43A. Mental Health
§43A-2-401.2. Emergency opioid antagonists for hospitals.
A. As used in this section:
1. “Emergency opioid antagonist” means a drug including but not limited to naloxone that blocks the effects of opioids and that is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of an opioid overdose; and
2. “Health benefit plan” has the same meaning as provided by Section 6060.4 of Title 36 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
B. Subject to allocation of federal funding for the purchase of emergency opioid antagonists, the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services shall distribute emergency opioid antagonists to hospitals for distribution by hospitals of emergency opioid antagonists to patients not covered by the state Medicaid program or by a health benefit plan as described in subsection C of Section 2 of this act.
C. The State Department of Health shall provide necessary technical assistance for the implementation of this section and Section 2 of this act.
Added by Laws 2023, c. 312, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2023.
