{"id":38349,"date":"2025-04-03T13:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T19:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=38349"},"modified":"2025-04-03T13:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T19:46:11","slug":"naloxone-legal-immunity-expanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=38349","title":{"rendered":"Naloxone legal immunity expanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37091\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37091\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37091\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=37091\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenMeyer_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"200,300\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Office of University Communication&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Glen Meyer, District 17. Legislature - 2025 Incoming Senators. November 20, 2024. Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1729274787&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2019, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;147&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Mark Wilkins Lab&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenMeyer_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Glen Meyer&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Glen Meyer&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenMeyer_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37091\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenMeyer_inline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Glen Meyer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lawmakers passed a bill April 3 broadening legal immunity to those prescribing, dispensing, administering or purchasing medications that rapidly reverse an opioid overdose.<\/p>\n<p>LB195, introduced by Pender Sen. Glen Meyer, replaces the term naloxone, commonly known by the brand name Narcan, in state law with the broader language of \u201copioid overdose reversal medication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The change will allow similar generic and over-the-counter medications to be prescribed, dispensed, administered and purchased with legal immunity.<\/p>\n<p>LB195 passed on a vote of 47-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill April 3 broadening legal immunity to those prescribing, dispensing, administering or purchasing medications that rapidly reverse an opioid overdose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[304],"class_list":["post-38349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","tag-sen-glen-meyer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/UpdateBlogPhoto-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38350,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38349\/revisions\/38350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}