Confusion Over Expanded Narcan Access Slows Roll-Out to N.H. First Responders

NHPR - This story quotes Seddon Savage, adjunct associate professor of anesthesiology and director of the Dartmouth Center on Addiction, Recovery and Education, on how doctors may be wary of prescribing Narcan because of the broad terms of a new law that allows prescriptions of the drug for anyone who says they or a friend or family member are at risk of an overdose. "The wording is, 'in good faith with reasonable care,'" Savage says. "So, what is good faith and reasonable care in this kind of setting? Do you have to have a doctor-patient relationship? Or can I, as a physician, write a prescription for somebody in the street that I see that looks like they're using opioids?"