Plain English Breakdown
The official source material does not provide specific details about the number of schools that will receive funding or which ones specifically.
Medication to Help with Opioid Overdoses in Schools
This bill allows Indiana schools to apply for state funding to purchase FDA-approved medicine that can help people who have overdosed on opioids.
What This Bill Does
- Allows the division of mental health and addiction to develop an application process for school corporations or individual schools to obtain funds for FDA-approved opioid overdose reversal medication, subject to available funding.
- Requires the state health commissioner to issue a statewide standing order, prescription, or protocol for obtaining FDA-approved opioid overdose reversal medication for each public school or school corporation.
Who It Names or Affects
- Public school corporations and individual schools in Indiana
Terms To Know
- FDA
- The Food and Drug Administration is a government agency that checks if medicines are safe to use.
- Opioid overdose reversal medication
- Medicine that can help save someone's life when they have taken too much of an opioid drug.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill only works if there is enough money available from the state.
- It does not specify how many schools will receive this medicine or which ones specifically.