31-11-54. Services which may be rendered by paramedics and paramedic trainees.

Code 1933, § 88-3112.5, enacted by Ga. L. 1977, p. 281, § 6; Ga. L. 1988, p. 1923, § 4; Ga. L. 1989, p. 1782, § 2; Ga. L. 2001, p. 1145, § 4; Ga. L. 2014, p. 683, § 2-4/HB 965.

Ga. L. 2014, p. 683, § 2-1/HB 965, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “WHEREAS, Naloxone is an opioid antagonist developed to counter the effects of opiate overdose, specifically the life threatening depression of the central nervous and respiratory systems; and “WHEREAS, Naloxone is clinically administered via intramuscular, intravenous, or subcutaneous injection; and “WHEREAS, Naloxone is administered outside of a clinical setting or facility intranasally via nasal atomizer; and “WHEREAS, the American Medical Association supported the lay administration of this life saving drug in 2012; and “WHEREAS, similar Naloxone access laws have reversed more than 10,000 opioid overdoses by lay people in other states; and “WHEREAS, the American Medical Association acknowledged that ‘fatalities caused by opioid overdose can devastate families and communities, and we must do more to prevent these unnecessary deaths’; and “WHEREAS, the National Institutes of Health found that Naloxone ‘lacks any psychoactive or addictive qualities . . . without any potential for abuse . . . [and] medical side effects or other problematic unintended consequences associated with Naloxone have not been reported’; and “WHEREAS, any administration of Naloxone to an individual experiencing an opioid overdose must be followed by professional medical attention and treatment.” Ga. L. 2014, p. 683, § 3-1/HB 965, not codified by the General Assembly, provides, in part, that Parts I and II of this Act shall apply to all acts committed on or after April 24, 2014.