Title 10 — Health and Safety

[Repealed, reserved, or text not separately stated.]

I Liheslaturan Guåhan finds that the United States is in the midst of the worst opioid epidemic in history. According to the United States Centers for Disease Control, the number of Opioid drug overdose deaths increased by nearly thirty percent (30%) from 2019 to 2020 and has qui…

(a) For the purposes of this section, the term: (1) Administer means the direct application of an emergency opioid antagonist by a person authorized pursuant to this Article to the body of an individual suffering, or believed to be suffering, an opioid overdose, whether by inject…

Except as provided in Subsection 16108 of this Act, a health care professional acting in good faith may directly or by standing order prescribe, dispense, and distribute an opioid antagonist to the following persons: (a) A person at risk of experiencing an opioid-related overdose…

Community-Based Organization Employee, or Volunteer. Except as provided in Subsection 16108 of this Act, an employee or volunteer of a community-based organization acting in good faith and in accordance with a standing order or under a health care professional’s prescriptive auth…

Antagonist. (a) Pharmacists. A pharmacist may dispense or distribute, but not prescribe, an opioid antagonist pursuant to a written protocol upon request. (b) Dispensers. Authorized dispensers in Guam may dispense emergency opioid antagonists directly to any individual, first res…

Practitioner and Emergency Medical Technician( EMT). (a) Health care practitioners and Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) may administer opioid antagonist intravenously, intraosseous, intranasally, intramuscularly, or down the endotracheal tube. (b) Administer. Any person may a…

Opioid Antagonist. (a) An employee or volunteer of a community-based organization shall not dispense or distribute an opioid antagonist under this section unless he or she completes training conducted by the Department of Public Health and Social Services or Guam Behavioral Healt…

(a) Prescribers. Any prescriber, who, in good faith and in the absence of gross negligence, malice, or criminal intent, issues a prescription for an emergency opioid antagonist shall be immune from civil or criminal liability and shall not be subject to administrative action for …

Reporting Opioid Overdoses. (a) No individual shall be subject to arrest or prosecution for the possession of opioid if: (1) Such individual in good faith, seeks or obtains emergency medical attention for himself if he is experiencing overdose or for another individual if such ot…

This Chapter may be cited as the Guam Opioid Overdose Prevention Act of 2023. SOURCE: Added by P.L. 37-002:1 (Mar. 20, 2023).

(a) In general. All correctional and detention settings shall make the following information available to both correctional staff and incarcerated individuals: (1) The importance of emergency opioid antagonists in preventing deaths from opioid overdoses; (2) How to recognize the …

(a) In general. All public educational institutions or universities within Guam shall make the following information available to both public educational institutions and universities: (1) The importance of emergency opioid antagonists in preventing deaths from opioid overdose; (…

(a) Publicly available information. Within six (6) months of the effective date of this Act, the Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness Center shall publish on its website, the following information at or below a sixth (6th) grade reading level: (1) The importance of emergency opioi…

Law Enforcement Agency, Conditions, Records. Notwithstanding any other law, a pharmacy, wholesaler, or manufacturer may furnish naloxone or other opioid antagonists to a law enforcement agencies if both of the following are met: (a) The naloxone or other opioid antagonist is furn…

(a) In General. Any prescriber issuing an initial or renewal prescription to an individual for an opioid analgesic on Guam shall co-prescribe an emergency opioid antagonist. (b) Patient Education. Upon issuing an initial prescription for an opioid analgesic, and at least once eve…

Companies. (a) Limitations on Coverage. Any company engaged in the business of providing life insurance that is authorized to do business within Guam shall not limit coverage, or refuse to issue or renew coverage, for an individual under any policy due to the fact that the indivi…

Program. The Guam Behavioral Health & Wellness Center shall establish the emergency opioid antagonist access bystander program, which shall involve: (a) establishing one (1) or more publicly accessible emergency opioid antagonist locations within the island; (b) determining the p…

Opioid Antagonists. The Opioid Recovery Advisory Council may distribute naloxone made available through settlements to pharmacies and to the emergency opioid antagonist access locations established by the Bystander Program in §16117 of this Chapter, to distribute as necessary. SO…

Notwithstanding any other law, the distribution or possession of a narcotic-drug-testing product that is used solely to determine whether a controlled substance contains fentanyl shall be lawful on Guam and may be distributed through the bystander program or wherever opioid antag…

The provisions outlined in this Act are declared to be separate and severable. The invalidity of any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section or portion of this statute, or the invalidity of the application thereof to any person or circumstance shall not affect the valid…