# Health - General (GHG)

## Title 13. Miscellaneous Health Care Programs

### Subtitle 35. Co-Prescribing of Opioid Overdose Reversal Drugs

#### Section 13-3501

(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b) "Co-prescribing" means, with respect to an opioid overdose reversal drug, the practice of prescribing the drug in conjunction with an opioid prescription for a patient at an elevated risk of overdose.

(c) "Opioid overdose reversal drug" means naloxone or a similarly acting and equally safe drug that is approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of a known or suspected opioid overdose.

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Md. Code Ann., Health-Gen. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)