Sec. 17a-714a. Treatment of drug overdose with opioid antagonist. Immunity. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 17a-714a. Treatment of drug overdose with opioid antagonist. Immunity. A licensed health care professional who is permitted by law to prescribe an opioid antagonist may, if acting with reasonable care, prescribe, dispense or administer an opioid antagonist to a drug user in need of such intervention without being liable for damages to such person in a civil action or subject to criminal prosecution. For purposes of this section, "opioid antagonist" means naloxone hydrochloride or any other similarly acting and equally safe drug approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of drug overdose.

      (P.A. 03-159, S. 2.)