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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="19-310.3" title_number="19" title_name="Health Care Facilities" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Hospitals and Related Institutions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>On or before January 1, 2018, each hospital shall have a protocol for discharging a patient who was treated by the hospital for a drug overdose or was identified as having a substance use disorder.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The protocol:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>May include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Coordination with peer recovery counselors who can conduct a screening, a brief intervention, and referral to treatment and connection of the patient with community services; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Prescribing opioid overdose reversal drugs approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for the patient; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>On or before June 30, 2023, shall require offering opioid overdose reversal drugs approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration, free of charge, to a patient who received treatment for a substance use disorder, opioid use disorder, or nonfatal drug overdose event.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
