Vital Strategies: Pennsylvania to Allow Naloxone to Be Obtained by Mail in Effort to Reduce Overdose Deaths
August 20, 2020
August 20, 2020
NEW YORK, Aug. 20 -- Vital Strategies issued the following news release on Aug. 19:
Yesterday, Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine signed a groundbreaking updated standing order which authorizes community-based organizations to provide the overdose reversal medication naloxone, including by mail. Whereas the original standing order issued by the Secretary in 2016 focused on naloxone obtained from a pharmacy, the new standing order enables community-based distribution, . . .
Yesterday, Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine signed a groundbreaking updated standing order which authorizes community-based organizations to provide the overdose reversal medication naloxone, including by mail. Whereas the original standing order issued by the Secretary in 2016 focused on naloxone obtained from a pharmacy, the new standing order enables community-based distribution, . . .