02-392-40 Me. Code R. § 5

Current through 2024-51, December 18, 2024

Section 392-40-5 - Eligible Recipients

Persons eligible to be prescribed Naloxone HCl under this rule include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Patients at risk;

2. Individuals who are members of a patient at risk's immediate family or a friend of the person or to another person in a position to assist the person if the person is at risk of experiencing an opioid-related drug overdose;

3. Persons with history of receiving emergency medical care for acute opioid poisoning or overdose;

4. Persons with a suspected or confirmed history of substance abuse, dependence or non-medical use of prescription or illegal drugs;

5. Persons receiving high-dose opioid prescriptions (E.g. >100 mg morphine equivalent);

6. Persons who are opioid naïve and receiving a first prescription for methadone for pain;

7. Persons starting buprenorphine or methadone for addiction treatment;

8. Persons on opioid prescriptions in combination with:

A. Smoking, COPD, emphysema, sleep apnea, or other respiratory illness;

B. Renal dysfunction, hepatic disease, or cardiac disease;

C. Known or suspected alcohol use;

D. Anyone who injects opioids, such as heroin or fentanyl;

E. Concurrent benzodiazepine or other sedative prescription; or

F. Concurrent antidepressant prescription;

9. Persons who may have difficulty accessing emergency medical services.

02-392 C.M.R. ch. 40, § 5